IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buffalo Park
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001CO075006
  • User Pedon ID: S2001CO075006
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedonsmlra72-Ulysses labOLD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0415
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13845
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO075—Logan
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M.L. Petersen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Buffalo Park
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/6/2013
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/11/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    free carbonates

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—100

    0—19

    19—46

    46—100

    —100—

    —19—

    —27—

    —54—
    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

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    Ap—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; 21 percent clay; weak and moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; common very fine tubular and many fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02174
    Bw1—19 to 46 centimeters (7.5 to 18.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; 24 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; common very fine tubular and many fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02175
    Bk1—46 to 73 centimeters (18.1 to 28.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3) and brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine and medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout; many very fine tubular and common fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02176
    Bk2—73 to 100 centimeters (28.7 to 39.4 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; very fine sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; many very fine tubular and many fine tubular pores; 4 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 02N02177