IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nakai
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982UT037007
  • User Pedon ID: 82UT037007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0787
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51574
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Raplee ridge
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT037—San Juan

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Calciorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nakai
  • PSC - 15 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nakai
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Calciorthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1982
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: mesa or butte
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1982 (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
  • 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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    1A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior very fine sandy loam; single grain; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04048
    1Bw1—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04049
    1Bw2—23 to 47 centimeters (9.1 to 18.5 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04050. common very fine and fine roots
    1Bk1—47 to 66 centimeters (18.5 to 26.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04051
    1Bk2—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior fine sandy loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04052
    1Bk3—84 to 110 centimeters (33.1 to 43.3 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior fine sandy loam; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 82P04053
    2Bkm—110 to 138 centimeters (43.3 to 54.3 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Lab sample # 82P04054
    1R—130 centimeters (51.2 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. Limestone bedrock.