IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elwood Family
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986UT027001
  • User Pedon ID: 86UT027001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986UT027001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0974
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59268
  • Print Date: 4/30/2025

    • 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: 38.8666649
  • Std. Longitude: -112.2333298
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22S
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: SW/SE
  • Location Description: White Pine Peak on Richfield SW Quadrangle.
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT027—Millard
  • MLRA: 47—Wasatch and Uinta Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John T. Lott
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elwood Family
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Argic Cryoborolls
  • PSC - 33 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    ABLA

    ARCTO3

    PIEN

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Arctostaphylos

    Picea engelmannii

    subalpine fir

    manzanita

    Engelmann spruce

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—33

    33—79

    79—114

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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

    63

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    2938

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    0

    89

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    1

    11

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    4

    10

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    O—1 to 1 centimeters (0.4 to 0.4 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 86P05828. Intermediately and extremely decomposed conifer litter.
    A—1 to 34 centimeters (0.4 to 13.4 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, dry; cobbly loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.5 medium tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 86P05829. common fine and medium roots; few coarse roots
    Bt1—34 to 47 centimeters (13.4 to 18.5 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) crushed, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) exterior, dry; very cobbly sandy clay loam, very cobbly sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05830. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common fine and medium roots; few coarse roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 221202; continuous - phpvsfiid 221202
    Bt2—47 to 80 centimeters (18.5 to 31.5 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) crushed, reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) exterior, dry; very cobbly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05831. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine and medium roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 221203; continuous - phpvsfiid 221203
    Bk—80 to 115 centimeters (31.5 to 45.3 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) crushed, reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) exterior, dry; very cobbly sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, phenol red. Lab sample # 86P05832. few fine and medium roots; effervescence is continuous