IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sielo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968UT025001
  • User Pedon ID: 68UT025001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1968UT025001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68C0041
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42966
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.4305573
  • Std. Longitude: -112.3649979
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 39S
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4
  • Location Description: Kane County, UT. Paunsaugunt Soil Survey Area, Utah. Dry Fork.
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT025—Kane
  • 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: Fine, kaolinitic Ustic Glossocryalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sielo
  • PSC - 23 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/26/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sielo
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/11/1968 (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

    ARCTO3

    CAREX

    JUHO2

    Arctostaphylos

    Carex

    Juniperus horizontalis

    manzanita

    sedge

    creeping juniper

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    glossic horizon

    0—13

    0—13

    13—152

    13—23

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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

    3

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    2682

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    635

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    8.3

    15

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    E—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak medium platy parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine interstitial and vesicular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C00233
    Oe—13 to 0 centimeters (5.1 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C00232. 2 inches to 0, partially to well-decomposed litter.
    E/B—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak medium platy parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine interstitial and vesicular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 68C00234. mixed A2 and B2t horizons with about 80 percent A2 and 20 percent B2t; the B2t portion is as described below in the B21t.
    Bt1—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), red (2.5YR 5/6), dry; clay; strong medium platy parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine to coarse roots; 0.5 fine interstitial and tubular pores; organic stains on faces of peds and 30 percent pink (5YR 7/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented pink (5YR 8/3) carbonate concretions; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00235. continuous - phpvsfiid 795693; continuous - phpvsfiid 795693
    Bt2—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), red (2.5YR 5/6), dry; clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine to coarse roots; 0.5 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 75 percent pink (5YR 7/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented pink (5YR 7/3) carbonate concretions; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00236
    Bt3—58 to 91 centimeters (22.8 to 35.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), red (2.5YR 5/6), dry; silty clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent clay films; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00237
    Bt4—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); light red (2.5YR 6/6), pink (5YR 7/4), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 68C00238
    BCt—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6), light red (2.5YR 6/6), dry; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent clay films; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 68C00239
    C—152 to 188 centimeters (59.8 to 74.0 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 7/6), pink (5YR 8/4), dry; clay loam; weak coarse platy structure; very hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 68C00240