IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hiko Peak
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985UT003004
  • User Pedon ID: 85UT003004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1985UT003004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0951
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57217
  • 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: 41.8652763
  • Std. Longitude: -113.1277771
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT003—Box Elder
  • MLRA: 28A—Ancient Lake Bonneville

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. C. Loerch and S. Ferguson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Xerollic Calciorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hiko Peak
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hiko Peak
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Xerollic Calciorthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • 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

    ARTRW

    BRTE

    PONE3

    Artemisia tridentata var. wyomingensis

    Bromus tectorum

    Poa nevadensis

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    cheatgrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—10

    20—50

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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

    4

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    1383

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    90

    25

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    9

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    10

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    1A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine vesicular pores; 37 percent distinct carbonate coats on rock fragments; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 85P05081; dry when described;. common lime or carbonate coats surface features on rock fragments; many very fine roots throughout; many fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 219495; continuous - phpvsfiid 219495
    1Bw—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly loam; weak medium granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 37 percent distinct carbonate coats on rock fragments; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 85P05082; dry when described;. common lime or carbonate coats surface features on rock fragments; many very fine roots throughout; many fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 219496; continuous - phpvsfiid 219496
    1Bk1—20 to 53 centimeters (7.9 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 37 percent distinct carbonate coats on rock fragments; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 85P05083; dry when described;. common lime or carbonate coats surface features on rock fragments; many very fine roots throughout; many fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 219497; continuous - phpvsfiid 219497
    1Bk2—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 37 percent distinct carbonate coats on rock fragments; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 85P05084; dry when described;. common lime or carbonate coats surface features on rock fragments; common very fine roots throughout; common fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 219498; continuous - phpvsfiid 219498
    1Ck1—76 to 127 centimeters (29.9 to 50.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 37 percent distinct carbonate coats on rock fragments; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 85P05085; dry when described;. common lime or carbonate coats surface features on rock fragments; few very fine roots throughout; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 219499; continuous - phpvsfiid 219499
    1Ck2—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 37 percent distinct carbonate coats on rock fragments; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 85P05086; dry when described;. common lime or carbonate coats surface features on rock fragments; few very fine roots throughout; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 219500; continuous - phpvsfiid 219500