IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buffcreek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983WY025007
  • User Pedon ID: 83WY025007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0632
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52869
  • 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: 43.3591652
  • Std. Longitude: -107.1166687
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 39N
  • Range: 86W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 1230 feet N and 1080 feet E of SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Natrona County, WY.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY025—Natrona

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Ustollic Calciorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Buffcreek
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Buffcreek
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Ustollic Calciorthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1983 (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
    • 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

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    1952

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    1A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, dry; gravelly loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine single grain; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03084. 30% gravel; few cobbles and stones.
    1Bk1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, dry; gravelly loam; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent fine spherical carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03086. 30% gravel and few cobbles and stone; pendants on coarse frags.; many fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations
    1Bk2—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, pink (5YR 7/4) interior, dry; very cobbly loam; 20 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent medium spherical carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03087. 40-50% cobbles, gravel and stones; pendants on coarse frags.; common medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations
    1C—46 to 152 centimeters (18.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, dry; very cobbly loam; 16 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent fine spherical gypsum masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 83P03088. 40-50% cobbles, gravel and stones.; few fine masses of gypsum concentrations