IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cathedral
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008CO642003AWS
  • User Pedon ID: S08C0642002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008CO642003AWS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0127
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24032
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 40.4205017
  • Std. Longitude: -105.4644165
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 72W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 2948' East and 896' South from the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 51—Cathedral-Ratake complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO069—Larimer
  • MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO642—Estes Park Area, Colorado, Parts of Boulder and Larimer Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40105-D4—Glen Haven, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Andy Steinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, micaceous, frigid Lithic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cathedral
  • PSC - 25 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/17/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cathedral
  • Classificaton Date - 7/2/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from granite
  • Landform: pediment
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated strong weathered granite at 46cm
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat subangular 2- to 75-millimeter granite, 10.00 percent nonflat subangular 2- to 75-millimeter granite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/2/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 27
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARFR4

    MUMO

    POSE

    Artemisia frigida

    Muhlenbergia montana

    Poa secunda

    prairie sagewort

    mountain muhly

    Sandberg bluegrass

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    46 - 152

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—46

    46—152

    —46—

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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

    2

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    2445.4

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    242

    356

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    95

    6.1

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    052759

    Estes Park

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    A—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) broken face, moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 69 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 26 percent mica flakes, biotite throughout and 15 percent mica flakes, muscovite throughout and 3 percent mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular 20-45-75 millimeter granite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 5-10-20 millimeter granite fragments and 11 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N00876; observed in pit, small
    Bw—7 to 20 centimeters (2.8 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 66 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular, and weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 16 percent mica flakes, muscovite throughout and 28 percent mica flakes, biotite throughout and 2 percent mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 12 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments and 12 percent by volume nonflat subangular 5-10-20 millimeter granite fragments and 12 percent by volume nonflat subangular 20-45-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N00877; observed in pit, small
    C—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, moist; extremely gravelly sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 16 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 fine roots in cracks; 20 percent fine and medium mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-100-250 millimeter granite fragments and 60 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-5-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    R—46 to 152 centimeters (18.1 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; impermeable permeability; fragments.; observed in pit, small