IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Colby
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1960CO099002
  • User Pedon ID: S1960CO099002
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3857
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39503
  • 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: 38.0888901
  • Std. Longitude: -102.2302780
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22S
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: .2 mile north and 385 feet west of south quarter corner
  • Location Description: Prowers County, Colorado.
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO099—Prowers
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO099—Prowers County, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: James P. Pannell
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colby
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Ustor
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/18/1960
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/18/1960 (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
    • 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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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29552
    AC—8 to 38 centimeters (3.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29553
    C1—38 to 107 centimeters (15.0 to 42.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and massive; soft, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29554
    C2—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; massive; soft, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 40A29555