IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fort Collins
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958WY031003
  • User Pedon ID: S1958WY031003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3440
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38555
  • 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: 42.0569458
  • Std. Longitude: -105.0097198
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 68W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: southwest quarter of northwest quarter of northeast quarter, beginning at east end of metal culvert in concrete-lined irrigation ditch near north quarter corner of section, then east 695 feet and south 971 feet.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY031—Platte
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY031—Platte County, Wyoming

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. J. Cline and Fraser Stephens
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fort Collins
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/7/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26648. temperature 18.5 degrees centigrade.
    B2t—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sandy clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26649. temperature 16.5 degrees centigrade.; continuous - phpvsfiid 187057; continuous - phpvsfiid 187057
    B3ca—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy clay loam; weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; clay films on all faces of peds; carbonate masses and 1 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26650. this is a weak horizon of lime accumulation with some visible lime occurring as small concretions; temperature 15.5 degrees centigrade; there is some coarse gravel in the lower part of this horizon.; patchy - phpvsfiid 187058; patchy - phpvsfiid 187058
    Cca1—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable; carbonate concretions; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26651. approximately 10 percent of this horizon is stone and gravel; this is a moderate to strong horizon of lime accumulation with visible lime occurring as concretions and in finely divided forms; horizon temperature 15.5 degrees centigrade.
    Cca2—71 to 112 centimeters (28.0 to 44.1 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry; gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 40A26652. this is a strong horizon of lime accumulation with visible lime occurring in finely divided forms; approximately 15 percent of this horizon is stone and gravel; horizon temperature 15.5 degrees centigrade; this horizon grades to substratum of clean sand, gravel, and cobble.