IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sitar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985UT003005
  • User Pedon ID: 85UT003005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1985UT003005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0952
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57218
  • 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: 41.5466652
  • Std. Longitude: -113.1222229
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT003—Box Elder
  • MLRA: 28A—Ancient Lake Bonneville

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. T. Hall and D. Andrews
  • 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 #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sitar
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Xerollic Calciorthids
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • 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: 7/1/1985 (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

    ATCO

    BRTE

    Artemisia tridentata var. wyomingensis

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Bromus tectorum

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    shadscale saltbush

    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—8

    23—74

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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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    1340

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    45

    25

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    9

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    10

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly silt loam; moderate fine platy, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine vesicular and 5.5 fine vesicular pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P05087; dry when described;. common very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bw—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine vesicular pores; 37 percent distinct carbonate coats on rock fragments; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P05088; dry when described;. common lime or carbonate coats surface features on rock fragments; common very fine roots throughout; many very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 219501; continuous - phpvsfiid 219501
    1Bk1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine vesicular pores; 37 percent distinct carbonate coats on rock fragments; 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05089; dry when described;. common lime or carbonate coats surface features on rock fragments; many very fine roots; common fine roots; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 219347; continuous - phpvsfiid 219347
    1Bk2—36 to 74 centimeters (14.2 to 29.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; extremely gravelly silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 37 percent distinct , moist, carbonate coats on rock fragments; 75 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05090; moist when described;. common lime or carbonate coats surface features on rock fragments; many very fine roots; few fine roots; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 219348; continuous - phpvsfiid 219348
    2C1—74 to 100 centimeters (29.1 to 39.4 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; extremely gravelly fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 37 percent distinct , moist, carbonate coats on rock fragments; 75 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05091; moist when described;. common lime or carbonate coats surface features on rock fragments; many very fine roots; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 219349; continuous - phpvsfiid 219349
    2C2—100 to 152 centimeters (39.4 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; extremely gravelly fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 37 percent distinct , moist, carbonate coats on rock fragments; 75 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 85P05092; moist when described;. common lime or carbonate coats surface features on rock fragments; many very fine roots; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 219350; continuous - phpvsfiid 219350