IDENTIFIERS

  • User Site ID: S2013CO029012
  • User Pedon ID: S2013CO029012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 2/18/2026

    • 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: 38.6225201
  • Std. Longitude: -107.8886795
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 23—Chipeta silty clay, 3 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO029—Delta
  • MLRA: 34B—Warm Central Desertic Basins and Plateaus
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO679—Paonia Area, Colorado, Parts of Delta, Gunnison, and Montrose Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David A Dearstyne
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Unnamed
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, active, mesic, shallow Typic Torriorthents
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/2013
  • Classifier - David Dearstyne
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/12/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: David Dearstyne
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    15

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    1628

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    180

    25

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist; 18 percent clay; weak medium platy parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few very fine roots and few fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary.
    C—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist; 12 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots and common fine roots; 70 percent by volume angular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary.
    Cr—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2.