IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clapper
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979WY003001
  • User Pedon ID: 79WY003001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0221
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46954
  • Print Date: 11/25/2024

    • 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: 44.7611122
  • Std. Longitude: -108.1597214
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 55N
  • Range: 94W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 548 meters S and 511 meters E of NW corner
  • Location Description: Park County, Wyoming.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY003—Big Horn

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Lubruska and J. R. Stephens
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clapper
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Andisols
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    1A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak coarse granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 80 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Gravel and cobble on surface. Not sampled.; many very fine roots; few fine and medium roots
    1C1ca—5 to 51 centimeters (2.0 to 20.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/3) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 70 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; diffuse broken boundary. Lab sample # 79P01083. Fine disseminated calcium carbonate throughout plus common medium soft masses of calcium carbonate and pendants on lower side of rock fragments.; common very fine roots
    1C2cacs—51 to 117 centimeters (20.1 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 70 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; diffuse broken boundary. Lab sample # 79P01084. Fine disseminated calcium carbonate throught plus few coarse soft masses of calcium carbonate and calcium sulfate crystals and pendants of calcium sulfate crystals on lower side of rock fragments.; few very fine roots
    1C3cacs—117 to 153 centimeters (46.1 to 60.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; very gravelly loamy sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent fine and medium carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Few fine and medium soft masses of calcium sulfate crystals.; few fine and medium lime concretions concentrations