IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cathedral
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008CO642005AWS
  • User Pedon ID: S09CO069004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008CO642005AWS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0129
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24034
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 40.3878899
  • Std. Longitude: -105.5210037
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 73W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 2280' South and 1916' West from the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 50—Cathedral-Ratake complex, 5 to 15 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-D5—Estes Park, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Andy Steinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Lithic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cathedral
  • PSC - 25 to 45 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/6/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cathedral
  • Classificaton Date - 7/3/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from granite
  • Landform: hill
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated granite at 45cm
  • Surface Fragments: 25.00 percent nonflat subangular 2- to 75-millimeter granite, 25.00 percent nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2- to 75-millimeter granite, 1.00 percent nonflat subangular 250- to 600-millimeter granite, 1.00 percent nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 250- to 600-millimeter granite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/3/2008 (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 - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 27
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARFR4

    FEAR2

    POSE

    POTEN

    Artemisia frigida

    Festuca arizonica

    Poa secunda

    Potentilla

    prairie sagewort

    Arizona fescue

    Sandberg bluegrass

    cinquefoil

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    45 - 152

    - 107 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—25

    25—45

    45—152

    —25—

    —20—

    —107—
    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

    17

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    2336.9

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    290

    356

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    95

    6.1

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    052759

    Estes Park

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) broken face, moist; gravelly sandy loam; 80 percent sand; 4 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 12.0 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, moist; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 16 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular, and moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 8.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine vesicular pores; 30 percent mica flakes, biotite throughout and 4 percent mica flakes, muscovite throughout; 12 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 5-10-20 millimeter granite fragments and 26 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N00880; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—25 to 45 centimeters (9.8 to 17.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/3) crushed, moist; extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 12 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine vesicular pores; 22 percent mica flakes, biotite throughout and 2 percent mica flakes, muscovite throughout; 26 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments and 34 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 5-10-20 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N00881; observed in pit, small
    R—45 to 152 centimeters (17.7 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; impermeable permeability; fragments.; observed in pit, small