IDENTIFIERS

  • User Site ID: S2013CO029027
  • User Pedon ID: S2013CO029027
  • 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, shallow Ustic Haplargids
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2013
  • Classifier - David Dearstyne
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent shell fragments,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/2013 (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

    9

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    1688

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    27

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; 24 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; moderately hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; common very fine dendritic tubular and pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary.
    Btz—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; 31 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent fine threadlike salt crystals; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary.
    Cr—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); fragments.