IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008CO642016MJM
  • User Pedon ID: S08CO069006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008CO642016MJM
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0131
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24036
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 40.3958626
  • Std. Longitude: -105.4680862
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 72W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 2031' East and 853' North from the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: 2717B—Cypher-Wetmore-Ratake families complex, 5 to 40 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: Mike Moore
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, micaceous, frigid Alfic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Moen
  • PSC - 36 to 57 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/11/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moen
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium and/or residuum weathered from schist
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent moderate weathered schist, unspecified at 96cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/19/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 21
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARFR4

    BOGR2

    PASM

    PIPO

    Artemisia frigida

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Pinus ponderosa

    prairie sagewort

    blue grama

    western wheatgrass

    ponderosa pine

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    96 - 152

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—22

    36—57

    96—152

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    —21—

    —56—
    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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    2375

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    320

    356

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    95

    6.1

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    052759

    Estes Park

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    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 11 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.9, bromthymol blue.; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—9 to 22 centimeters (3.5 to 8.7 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 9 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.9, bromthymol blue.; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—22 to 36 centimeters (8.7 to 14.2 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; gravelly loamy coarse sand; 79 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 46 percent mica flakes, biotite throughout and 4 percent mica flakes, muscovite throughout and 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified throughout and 1 percent mica flakes, mixed throughout; 6 percent by volume nonflat subangular 5-10-20 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 11 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-3-5 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 09N00886; observed in pit, small
    Bt—36 to 57 centimeters (14.2 to 22.4 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 72 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 65 percent mica flakes, biotite throughout and 2 percent mica flakes, muscovite throughout and 2 percent mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 5-10-20 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 18 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-3-5 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.1, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 09N00887; observed in pit, small
    C—57 to 96 centimeters (22.4 to 37.8 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 80 percent sand; 4 percent silt; 16 percent clay; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.1, bromthymol blue.; observed in pit, small
    Cr—96 to 152 centimeters (37.8 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; very slow permeability; fragments.; observed in pit, small