IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cavegulch
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983WY025004
  • User Pedon ID: 83WY025004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0629
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52866
  • 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: 43.1758347
  • Std. Longitude: -106.9108353
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N
  • Range: 84W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet N of center
  • Location Description: Natrona County, WY.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY025—Natrona

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Cambic Gypsiorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cavegulch
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cavegulch
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, gypsic, mesic Cambic Gypsiorthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • 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

    gypsic horizon

    0—15

    15—152

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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

    6

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    1652

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    1A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03060
    1AB—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; silt loam; 23 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03061
    1By1—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03062
    1By2—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03063. Gypsum disseminated with few fine cylindrical soft masses.
    1By3—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; clay loam; 30 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03064. Many distinct fine and medium irregular soft masses of gypsum.
    1By4—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak fine platy structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 83P03065. Many medium irregular soft masses of gypsum.