IDENTIFIERS

  • User Site ID: S2013CO029025
  • User Pedon ID: S2013CO029025
  • 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: 11—Badland
  • 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, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2013
  • Classifier - David Dearstyne
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • 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: 7/31/2013 (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

    73

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    2003

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    270

    27

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6), moist; 19 percent clay; weak thick platy parts to weak fine granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear smooth boundary.
    C—15 to 31 centimeters (5.9 to 12.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; 25 percent clay; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 50 percent by volume angular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual wavy boundary.
    Cr1—31 to 51 centimeters (12.2 to 20.1 inches); fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    Cr2—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); fragments.