IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Botero
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003-WY-041-002
  • User Pedon ID: 03WY041002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2003-WY-041-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0184
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16890
  • Print Date: 4/21/2025

    • 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: 41.1869431
  • Std. Longitude: -110.4866638
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 116W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet east and 600 feet north of the SW corner
  • Map Unit: 7—Botero loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY041—Uinta
  • MLRA: 34—Central Desertic Basins, Mountains, and Plateaus
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY041—Uinta County Area, Wyoming

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: STAFF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Botero
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic Haplustepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/17/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/17/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    JUSC2

    PASM

    PIEN

    POSE

    Juniperus scopulorum

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Picea engelmannii

    Poa secunda

    Rocky Mountain juniper

    western wheatgrass

    Engelmann spruce

    Sandberg bluegrass

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    abrupt textural change

    0—8

    8—70

    70—152

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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

    1

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    2281

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    45

    12

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    75

    6

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    E—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) broken face, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; moderate thin platy parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00864; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw1—8 to 43 centimeters (3.1 to 16.9 inches); silt loam; soft, very friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00865; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw2—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); silt loam; soft, very friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00866; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bk—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); silt loam; soft, very friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00867; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2C1—102 to 130 centimeters (40.2 to 51.2 inches); very gravelly sandy clay loam; slightly hard, very friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00868; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2C2—130 to 165 centimeters (51.2 to 65.0 inches); extremely cobbly loamy sand; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 04N00869; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry