IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pharo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985UT027001
  • User Pedon ID: 85UT027001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1985UT027001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0938
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57204
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 38.7080574
  • Std. Longitude: -112.5902786
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24S
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 2700 feet N and 2333 feet E of SW corner
  • Location Description: 10 mi SW of Kanosh.
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT027—Millard
  • MLRA: 28A—Ancient Lake Bonneville

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. Campbell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic Aridic Calcixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pharo
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic Aridic Calcixerolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    ARARN

    JUOS

    POSE

    Artemisia arbuscula var. nova

    Juniperus osteosperma

    Poa secunda

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    Utah juniper

    Sandberg bluegrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—22

    22—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

    15

    —

    —

    1646

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    270

    35

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    11

    22

    0

    13

    24

    2

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    424527

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    1A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; gravelly loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P05018; dry when described;. Not continuous horizon occurs only under sagebrush plants. 55% of surface.; many fine roots throughout; few coarse roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1A2—10 to 22 centimeters (3.9 to 8.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05019; dry when described;. many fine roots throughout; few coarse roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bk1—22 to 36 centimeters (8.7 to 14.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, moist; very gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 55 percent faint very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on rock fragments; 30 percent coarse irregular lime masses; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05020; dry when described;. many coarse soft masses of lime concentrations; many lime or carbonate coats surface features on rock fragments; few fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 219333; continuous - phpvsfiid 219333
    1Bk2—36 to 50 centimeters (14.2 to 19.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, moist; very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots top of horizon; 55 percent faint very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on rock fragments; 30 percent coarse irregular lime masses; 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05021; dry when described;. many coarse soft masses of lime concentrations; many lime or carbonate coats surface features on rock fragments; many fine roots in mat at top of horizon; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 219334; continuous - phpvsfiid 219334
    1Bk3—50 to 89 centimeters (19.7 to 35.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, moist; extremely gravelly sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable, weakly cemented by carbonates, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 55 percent faint very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on rock fragments; 30 percent coarse irregular lime masses; 70 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05022; dry when described;. many coarse soft masses of lime concentrations; many lime or carbonate coats surface features on rock fragments; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 219335; continuous - phpvsfiid 219335
    1C—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) crushed, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, moist; extremely gravelly sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent medium irregular lime masses; 70 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 85P05023; dry when described;. few medium soft masses of lime concentrations; effervescence is continuous