IDENTIFIERS

  • User Site ID: S2013CO029021
  • User Pedon ID: S2013CO029021
  • 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: 15—Billings silty clay loam, 3 to 6 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 - Clayey, mixed, active, mesic, shallow Typic Haplogypsids
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/2013
  • Classifier - David Dearstyne
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent 2- to 150-millimeter sandstone, unspecified, 20.00 percent 2- to 75-millimeter igneous, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/16/2013 (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

    10

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    1600

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    225

    25

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    A—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; 20 percent clay; weak medium platy parts to weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume subangular 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Btz1—2 to 10 centimeters (0.8 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine salt crystals and 3 percent fine salt masses; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume subangular 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Btz2—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; 28 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine salt crystals and 3 percent fine salt masses; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4; gradual wavy boundary.
    BCyz1—38 to 74 centimeters (15.0 to 29.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; 16 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout and 1 percent fine salt masses throughout and 1 percent fine salt crystals throughout and 1 percent medium salt crystals throughout and 1 percent medium gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout and 1 percent medium gypsum masses throughout and 1 percent medium salt masses throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0; clear wavy boundary.
    BCyz2—74 to 152 centimeters (29.1 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; 32 percent clay; massive; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent coarse gypsum masses throughout and 1 percent coarse salt masses throughout and 1 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout and 1 percent fine salt crystals throughout and 1 percent medium salt crystals throughout and 1 percent medium gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout and 1 percent medium gypsum masses throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0.