IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tusher

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S1986UT015003

User Pedon ID: 86UT015003

Vegetation Plot ID: S1986UT015003

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - SSL

Lab Pedon # - 86P0957

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59251

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: 39.1727791

Std. Longitude: -111.0680542

Datum: WGS84

Township: 19S

Range: 8E

Section: 18

PLSS Details: 1500 feet S and 250 feet E of the NW corner

Map Unit: 178—Vickel-Utaline-Persayo complex, 8 to 45 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: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Haplocalcids

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: map unit inclusion

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data

Pedon #: 3

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Tusher

PSC - 25 to 100 cm.

Classificaton Date - 12/2/2011

Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition

Moisture Class - aridic (torric)

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Minchey

Classificaton Date - 9/1/1986

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Erosion Class - 1

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: alluvium derived from metamorphic and sedimentary rock and/or alluvium derived from metamorphic and sedimentary rock

Landscape: plateaus or tablelands

Landform: pediment

Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land

Hill Slope Profile: summit

Slope Position: upper third

Slope Shape Down: convex

Runoff: medium

Drainage Class: well

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
ATCO HIJA ORHY	Atriplex confertifolia Hilaria jamesii Oryzopsis hymenoides	shadscale saltbush — —	— — —	— — —	— — —

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
ochric epipedon calcic horizon	0—8 8—155	—- —-

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	—	—	1783	—	135	18	—	—	9	16	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	121407	—

A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium platy, and moderate coarse platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine vesicular and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P5736; dry when described;. common very fine roots throughout; common fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous

Bk1—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, moist; sandy clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately 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 medium irregular lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P5737; dry when described;. common medium soft masses of lime concentrations; common very fine roots throughout; common fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous

Ek2—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately 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 irregular lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P5738; dry when described;. common coarse soft masses of lime concentrations; common very fine roots throughout; common fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous

Bk3—43 to 92 centimeters (16.9 to 36.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, moist; loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular lime masses and medium cylindrical carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P5739; dry when described;. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; common very fine roots throughout; common fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous

2Bk—92 to 155 centimeters (36.2 to 61.0 inches); 60 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed and 40 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, 60 percent brown (10YR 5/3) crushed and 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, moist; extremely gravelly fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots around fragments and 0.5 fine roots around fragments; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular lime masses and 1 percent medium irregular lime masses; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 86P5740; dry when described;. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few medium soft masses of lime concentrations; few very fine roots matted around stones; few fine roots matted around stones; effervescence is continuous