IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Monte
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984WY037002
  • User Pedon ID: 84WY037002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1984WY037002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0954
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57220
  • Print Date: 1/18/2025

    • 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: 41.0546684
  • Std. Longitude: -109.9460144
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 111W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: SW, NE, NE
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY037—Sweetwater

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Torriorthents
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Monte
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Torriorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 9/17/1985
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium from shale
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/17/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGROP2

    ARFR4

    ATGA

    Agropyron

    Artemisia frigida

    Atriplex gardneri

    wheatgrass

    prairie sagewort

    Gardner's saltbush

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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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    2091

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    180

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), olive (5Y 4/3), moist; clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P05098
    A2—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), olive (5Y 4/3), moist; clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium and coarse platy structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red; clear smooth boundary.
    B—13 to 51 centimeters (5.1 to 20.1 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), olive (5Y 4/3), moist; clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P05099
    C1—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), olive (5Y 4/3), moist; clay loam; 28 percent clay; massive; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red.
    2C2—81 to 84 centimeters (31.9 to 33.1 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), olive (5Y 4/3), moist; channery clay loam; 28 percent clay; massive; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red.
    C3—84 to 137 centimeters (33.1 to 53.9 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), olive (5Y 4/3), moist; clay loam; 28 percent clay; massive; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments.
    C4—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); very channery clay loam; 28 percent clay; massive; soft, friable; fragments.