IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Richfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1963CO115009
  • User Pedon ID: S1963CO115009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3912
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39558
  • 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: 40.8527794
  • Std. Longitude: -102.3300018
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 45W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 1,584 feet west and 528 feet north of southeast corner
  • Location Description: Sedgwick County, Colorado.
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO115—Sedgwick
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO115—Sedgwick County, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. I. Brubacher
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Richfield
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/10/1963 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    3

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    1158

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    135

    457

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    10

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29951
    B2t—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay loam; strong medium prismatic parts to strong fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; clay films; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29952. continuous - phpvsfiid 188414; continuous - phpvsfiid 188414
    B3—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; clay films; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29953. patchy - phpvsfiid 188415; patchy - phpvsfiid 188415
    C1ca—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), very pale brown (10YR 8/3), dry; loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29954
    C2ca—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; sandy loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29955
    C3ca—99 to 178 centimeters (39.0 to 70.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), pink (7.5YR 7/4), dry; gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A29956
    C4—178 to 335 centimeters (70.1 to 131.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), pink (7.5YR 8/4), dry; Error; single grain; loose, loose; 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A29957