IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): unnamed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981WY037009
  • User Pedon ID: 81WY037009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1981WY037009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0818
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50212
  • 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: 41.7972221
  • Std. Longitude: -108.9022217
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21N
  • Range: 102W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet east of center
  • Location Description: About 4 miles northeast of Superior.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY037—Sweetwater
  • MLRA: 34—Central Desertic Basins, Mountains, and Plateaus

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. Ravenholt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed Borollic Lithic Calciorthids
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - unnamed
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2005
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rencot
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed Borollic Lithic Calciorthid
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • Classificaton Date - 9/4/1981
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian deposits and/or residuum weathered from volcanic rock and/or residuum weathered from igneous rock
  • Landform: Tableland-Zirkel mesa
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: igneous, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments: 50.00 percent 2- to 76-millimeter 20.00 percent 250- to 600-millimeter 30.00 percent 76- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/4/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ARTR2

    HECOC8

    POSE

    PSSP6

    Artemisia nova

    Artemisia tridentata

    Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata

    Poa secunda

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    black sagebrush

    big sagebrush

    needle and thread

    Sandberg bluegrass

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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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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    2304

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    11

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    95

    5

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; stony loam; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 fine roots; 30 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04879
    B—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; stony loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 20 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04880
    Cac—25 to 45 centimeters (9.8 to 17.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very stony loam; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 40 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 81P04881
    R—45 centimeters (17.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.