IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blazon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982WY013008
  • User Pedon ID: 82WY013008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0682
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51469
  • 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: 42.7125015
  • Std. Longitude: -108.4772186
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 97W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 579 meters E and 183 meters S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Fremont County, WY.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY013—Fremont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. H. Paris and J. E. Iiams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, semiactive, calcareous, frigid, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blazon
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blazon
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed (calcareous), frigid, shallow Ustic T
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1982
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1982 (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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    180

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    1A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine platy, and moderate fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03592. common fine roots; few coarse roots
    1Bw—5 to 19 centimeters (2.0 to 7.5 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03593. common fine roots; few coarse roots
    1Bky—19 to 31 centimeters (7.5 to 12.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 2.5 fine roots; 11 percent fine and medium carbonate masses and 1 percent fine and medium gypsum masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03594. 14% soft shale channers.; common fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine and medium masses of gypsum concentrations; common fine roots; few medium roots
    1Cr1—31 to 66 centimeters (12.2 to 26.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; very channery silty clay loam; moderate fine platy structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine to coarse roots; 11 percent fine and medium gypsum masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03595. Many fine and medium seams and filaments of carbonates; 60% soft shale channers.; common fine and medium masses of gypsum concentrations; few fine to coarse roots
    1Cr2—66 to 100 centimeters (26.0 to 39.4 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, 2.5Y 6/0 (2.5Y 6/0) interior, dry; extremely channery silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 82P03596. 90% shale fragments.