IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dalerose
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96CO628036
  • User Pedon ID: 96CO628036
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 96CO628036
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0291
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68763
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 37.2325361
  • Std. Longitude: -103.6154833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32 S.
  • Range: 55 W.
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 350' S 1300' W of NE corner
  • Map Unit: DaE—Dalerose-Rock outcrop complex, 3 to 25 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO071—Las Animas
  • MLRA: 69—Upper Arkansas Valley Rolling 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-B5—Tobe, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LAN
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 710
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dalerose
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 0 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/1996
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone and/or slope alluvium
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: scarp, ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 28cm
  • Geology: Dakota Sandstone formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 20.00 percent subangular indurated 2- to 10-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/12/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 29-F
  • Plant Association Name: Sandstone Breaks
  • 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
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOCU

    BOGR2

    JUMO

    SPCR

    STIPA

    YUCCA

    Bouteloua curtipendula

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Juniperus monosperma

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    Stipa

    Yucca

    sideoats grama

    blue grama

    oneseed juniper

    sand dropseed

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
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    bedrock, lithic

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

    ochric epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—8

    28—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

    7

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    1755.2

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; 18 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine and fine roots; 5 percent by volume angular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots; 2 percent medium distinct irregular carbonate masses; 10 percent by volume angular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt irregular boundary.; dry when described;
    R—30 to 152 centimeters (11.8 to 59.8 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments.