IDENTIFIERS

  • User Site ID: S2013CO029022
  • User Pedon ID: S2013CO029022
  • 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: 48—Killpack silty clay loam, 3 to 12 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 - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Haplargids
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • Classificaton Date - 7/17/2013
  • Classifier - David Dearstyne
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 8.00 percent 2- to 75-millimeter sandstone, unspecified, 7.00 percent 2- to 75-millimeter igneous, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/17/2013 (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

    8

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    1607

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    247

    24

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; 21 percent clay; weak medium platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent by volume subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Btz—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; 31 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular, and weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak coarse granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 6 percent medium salt masses; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4; clear wavy boundary.
    C—18 to 102 centimeters (7.1 to 40.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; 16 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume angular 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8; diffuse wavy boundary.
    Cr—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); fragments.