IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sanpete
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985UT045004
  • User Pedon ID: 85UT045004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1985UT045004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0946
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57212
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 40.2625008
  • Std. Longitude: -112.2347260
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet W and 100 feet N of the SE corner
  • Location Description: About 30 feet W of Hwy 73.
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT045—Tooele

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. T. Hall, R. L. Tummons and Leo Klameth
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic Sodic Xeric Haplocalcids
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sanpete
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hiko Peak
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1985
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1985 (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

    ARTRW

    ATCO

    CHVI8

    Artemisia tridentata var. wyomingensis

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

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    shadscale saltbush

    yellow rabbitbrush

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—18

    18—117

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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

    7

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    1658

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    270

    28

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    9

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    10

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    1A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly loam; moderate fine platy, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 2.5 very fine vesicular and 2.5 fine vesicular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, Hydrion; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P05056; dry when described;. few very fine roots between peds; effervescence is continuous
    1Bk1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots between peds and 2.5 fine roots between peds; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P05057; dry when described;. Thin lime coating on underside of rock fragment.; common very fine roots between peds; common fine roots between peds; effervescence is continuous
    1Bk2—36 to 74 centimeters (14.2 to 29.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; very gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots between peds and 0.5 fine roots between peds; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, thymol-blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P05058; dry when described;. Thick coatings of lime on all sides of rock fragments.; few very fine roots between peds; few fine roots between peds; effervescence is continuous
    1Bk3—74 to 117 centimeters (29.1 to 46.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; very gravelly fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P05059; dry when described;. Thin coatings of lime on rock fragments.; few very fine roots throughout; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bk4—117 to 170 centimeters (46.1 to 66.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 85P05060; dry when described;. few very fine roots throughout; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous