IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amodac
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983WY025003
  • User Pedon ID: 83WY025003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0628
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52865
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 43.1536102
  • Std. Longitude: -106.5858307
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N
  • Range: 81W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet N, 810 feet W of SE corner
  • Location Description: Natrona County, WY.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY025—Natrona

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Amodac
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Amodac
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ustollic Camborthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1983 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—13

    13—46

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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

    5

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    1699

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    135

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    1A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03051
    1A2—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; loam; 27 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03052
    1Bnk1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03053
    1Bnk2—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03054. CaCO3-2mnpf and common fine cylindrical soft masses.
    1Bk—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03055. CaCO3-common, medium cylindrical soft masses.
    1Bky—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; loam; 26 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03056. Common fine cylidical soft masses of CaCO3 and gypsum.
    2By—79 to 160 centimeters (31.1 to 63.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; clay loam; 28 percent clay; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified. Lab sample # 83P03057