IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wiley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96CO628015
  • User Pedon ID: 96CO628015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 96CO628015
  • User Site Association ID: 5589
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 67bTCO628066-WeB
  • Transect Stop Number - 7
  • Transect Interval - 520.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0589
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11448
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 37.1306944
  • Std. Longitude: -103.2109167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 33 S.
  • Range: 52 W.
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 450 feet west and 1,600 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: WeB—Wiley silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO071—Las Animas
  • MLRA: 67—Central High Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO628—Las Animas County Area, Colorado, Parts of Huerfano and Las Animas Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37103-B2—Pintada Creek, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LAN
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 742
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wiley
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • PSC - 8 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/30/1996
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: undulating plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/30/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 1-19
  • Plant Association Name: Loamy
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARLOG

    BOGR2

    MURI

    OPIMI

    SPCR

    YUCCA

    Aristida longispica var. geniculata

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Muhlenbergia richardsonis

    Opuntia imbricata var. imbricata

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    Yucca

    slimspike threeawn

    blue grama

    mat muhly

    tree cholla

    sand dropseed

    yucca

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—8

    8—64

    112—152

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    1594

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    5

    406

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    11.1

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    10.6

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15.0 very fine and fine roots; 25.0 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bt1—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3) and brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 25 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 111257; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 111257
    Bt2—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 35 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 071-1-3; dry when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 111258; continuous - phpvsfiid 111258
    Btk—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 35 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent medium distinct spherical carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 111259; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 111259
    BCk—64 to 71 centimeters (25.2 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 20 percent medium distinct spherical carbonate masses throughout; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described;
    Bk—71 to 152 centimeters (28.0 to 59.8 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/3), pink (7.5YR 7/4), moist; loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog.; dry when described;