IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Syrett
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968UT017005
  • User Pedon ID: 68UT017005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1968UT017005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68C0043
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42968
  • 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: 37.6286125
  • Std. Longitude: -112.2125015
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36S
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4 of SW 1/4
  • Location Description: East Creek, Garfield County, UT.
  • 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, carbonatic, frigid Typic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Syrett
  • PSC - 25 to 97 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/10/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Syrett
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: limestone
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/12/1968 (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

    ACHY

    ARCTO3

    CHRYS9

    JUSC2

    PURSH

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Arctostaphylos

    Chrysothamnus

    Juniperus scopulorum

    Purshia

    Indian ricegrass

    manzanita

    rabbitbrush

    Rocky Mountain juniper

    bitterbrush

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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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    2469

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    0

    457

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    8.3

    15

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    A11—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C00249
    A12—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, bromthymol blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C00250
    A13—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and medium and coarse roots; 0.5 fine pores; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00251
    IIC1—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly loam; massive; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine and medium roots; 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00252
    IIC2ca—58 to 97 centimeters (22.8 to 38.2 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/8), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), moist; gravelly silt loam; massive; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00253
    R—97 centimeters (38.2 inches); limestone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 68C00254. limestone bedrock.