IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chew
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986UT015002
  • User Pedon ID: 86UT015002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986UT015002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0956
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59250
  • 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: 38.8916664
  • Std. Longitude: -110.6305542
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22S
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet E and 250 feet S of the NW corner
  • Map Unit: 030—Chew-Smithpond, nongravelly substratum-Splimo complex, 2 to 20 percent slopes
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT015—Emery
  • MLRA: 34B—Warm Central Desertic Basins and Plateaus
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT623—Emery Area, Utah, Parts of Emery, Carbon, Grand, and Sevier Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Hansen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, carbonatic, mesic Ustic Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chew
  • PSC - 10 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/5/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chupadera
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: cuesta or hogback
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 10
  • 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

    ATCA2

    ORHY

    STCO5

    Atriplex canescens

    Oryzopsis hymenoides

    Stipa coronata

    fourwing saltbush

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—23

    23—81

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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

    2

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    2027

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    0

    25

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    8

    14

    1

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    248804

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, moist; very fine sandy loam; weak fine platy, and weak medium platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine vesicular and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P5730; dry when described;. Gravel sized limestone.; common very fine roots throughout; common fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    Bw—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, moist; loam; weak fine platy, and structureless massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 medium tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P5731; dry when described;. Gravel sized limestone.; few fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common very fine roots throughout; common fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    Bk1—23 to 56 centimeters (9.1 to 22.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, moist; sandy clay loam; massive; soft, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 medium tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent coarse cylindrical insect casts and 11 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 86P5732; dry when described;. Gravel sized limestone.; common fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common coarse insects casts concentrations; common very fine roots throughout; common fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    Bk2—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) crushed, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) crushed, moist; clay; massive; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots around fragments and 0.5 fine roots around fragments; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine irregular lime masses and 11 percent fine irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified; 40 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P5733; dry when described;. Cobble sized limestone.; common fine soft masses of lime concentrations; common fine gypsum crystals concentrations; few very fine roots matted around stones; few fine roots matted around stones; effervescence is continuous
    R—81 centimeters (31.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 86P5734. Limestone blocks with carboantes and or gypsum between rock fragments. Limestone is discontiuous in places with thick masses and crystals of carbonates and/or gypsum.