IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sandbench
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984UT015003
  • User Pedon ID: 84UT015003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1984UT015003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0846
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55084
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 39.1616325
  • Std. Longitude: -110.8146362
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19S
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4
  • Location Description: Emery County, UT.
  • Map Unit: 016—Braf-Sandbench-Rock outcrop association, 2 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT015—Emery
  • MLRA: 34B—Warm Central Desertic Basins and Plateaus
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT623—Emery Area, Utah, Parts of Emery, Carbon, Grand, and Sevier Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Hansen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Typic Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sandbench
  • PSC - 25 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/5/2011
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bluechief
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands derived from calcareous sandstone
  • Landform: structural bench, dune
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, calcareous at 89cm
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1984 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ATCA2

    SPCR

    Atriplex canescens

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    fourwing saltbush

    sand dropseed

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    89 - 99

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—8

    8—89

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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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    770

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    225

    20

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, moist; fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P4817. common fine roots; common very fine roots
    Bk1—8 to 33 centimeters (3.1 to 13.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, moist; very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P4818. common fine roots; common very fine roots
    Bk2—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P4819. common fine roots; common very fine roots
    Bk3—56 to 89 centimeters (22.0 to 35.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; gravelly loamy fine sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P4820. common fine roots; common very fine roots
    R—89 to 99 centimeters (35.0 to 39.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Not sampled.