IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Guben
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968UT017002
  • User Pedon ID: 68UT017002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1968UT017002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68C0036
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42961
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 37.7238884
  • Std. Longitude: -112.2227783
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35S
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet S and 300 feet W of the NE corner
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT017—Garfield
  • MLRA: 47—Wasatch and Uinta Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT636—Panguitch Area, Parts of Garfield, Iron, Kane, and Piute Counties, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Mitchell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Aridic Calciustolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Guben
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/10/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Guben
  • Classificaton Date - 6/10/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landform: pediment
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/10/1968 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    ARNO4

    CHRYS9

    Artemisia nova

    Chrysothamnus

    black sagebrush

    rabbitbrush

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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

    2

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    2438

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    90

    406

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    6.1

    16.7

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loam; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C00195
    B1—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fine and fine roots; 3.0 fine interstitial and 0.5 tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00196
    B2—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; gravelly loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 0.5 fine and medium interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00197
    C1ca—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; very gravelly loam; weak coarse platy structure; weakly cemented, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine and medium interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00198. coarse fragments are coated with carbonates.
    C2ca—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 fine and medium interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00199. coarse fragments are coated with carbonates.
    C3—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), brown (10YR 5/3) and pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 fine and medium pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 68C00200