IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Spager
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981UT045003
  • User Pedon ID: 81UT045003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0605
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49449
  • 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: 40.2183342
  • Std. Longitude: -113.9000015
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7S
  • Range: 18W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet S and 5300 feet W of the NW corner
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT045—Tooele

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic, shallow Xerollic Paleorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Spager
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Spager
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic, shallow Xerolli
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    1662

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    1A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; gravelly loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03594. few very fine and fine roots
    1A12—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; gravelly loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium and coarse roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P03595. many very fine and fine roots; few to common medium and coarse roots
    1B2—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and strong fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium and coarse roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P03596. many very fine and fine roots; few to common medium and coarse roots
    1C1casim—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; very gravelly loam; massive; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P03597. few very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    1C2casim—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; very hard, very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P03598. few very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    1C3casim—46 to 65 centimeters (18.1 to 25.6 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, dry; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm*; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 81P03599
    1C4casim—65 centimeters (25.6 inches); fragments. Profile contains stratified and extremely very gravelly alluvium. Layers show varying degrees of cementation.