IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hanksville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000UT015001
  • User Pedon ID: 00UT015001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000UT015001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0194
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13812
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 39.2859383
  • Std. Longitude: -110.9778671
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18S
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet east and 2450 feet north of SW corner
  • Map Unit: 033—Chipeta-Persayo-Killpack complex, 3 to 20 percent slopes
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT015—Emery
  • MLRA: 34B—Warm Central Desertic Basins and Plateaus
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT623—Emery Area, Utah, Parts of Emery, Carbon, Grand, and Sevier Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. Sasser
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Sodic Haplogypsids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hanksville
  • PSC - 25 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hanksville
  • Classificaton Date - 12/6/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: shale
  • Landform: shale hill
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/6/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ATCO

    ATCO4

    ELEL5

    ERIOG

    PLEUR12

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Atriplex corrugata

    Elymus elymoides

    Eriogonum

    Pleuraphis

    shadscale saltbush

    mat saltbush

    squirreltail

    buckwheat

    galleta grass

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    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

    6

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    1764

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    A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 41 percent clay; moderate medium platy parts to weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.0 very fine roots and medium and coarse roots and 1.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 2.0 fine vesicular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume angular 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N00884. sticky and plastic; few 1.5 cm to 1 mm circle cracks in A and Cy horizon extend to about 1 ft.
    Cy—4 to 18 centimeters (1.6 to 7.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; 41 percent clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.0 very fine roots and medium and coarse roots and 1.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent very fine very pale brown (10YR 8/3) gypsum masses; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N00885. sticky and plastic; few 1.5 cm to 1 mm circle cracks in A and Cy horizon extend to about 1 ft.
    Cyz1—18 to 52 centimeters (7.1 to 20.5 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay; 42 percent clay; weak fine and medium angular blocky parts to weak fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine and medium roots; 2.0 very fine and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent very fine and fine very pale brown (10YR 8/2) gypsum masses; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00886. sticky and plastic; rock fragments: 15% to 30% parach very soft increases with depth.
    Cyz2—52 to 76 centimeters (20.5 to 29.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), olive gray (5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; 39 percent clay; moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 very fine and fine roots; 1.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine white (2.5Y 8/1) gypsum masses; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00887. sticky and plastic; rock fragments: 50% parach upper part increasing to 60% lower part; matting of roots at shale contact 2vf, 1f, parach breaks down when moist.
    Cr—76 to 82 centimeters (29.9 to 32.3 inches); bedrock; 1.0 very fine roots; 1 percent fine pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) and gray (2.5Y 5/1) gypsum masses; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5. mottles: 2.5Y 5/4 & 5/6 in cracks on shale.