IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cave
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986UT053002
  • User Pedon ID: 86UT053002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986UT053002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0959
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59253
  • 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: 37.1800003
  • Std. Longitude: -113.9244461
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 41S
  • Range: 19W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 1100 feet S and 600 feet E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Joshua Tree Catchment Area. R18W entered changed to R19W (Recorded as R18W on one description and R19W on another)
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT053—Washington
  • MLRA: 30—Mojave Basin and Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gordon C. Crandall and Carolyn S. Wiarda
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cave
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, shallow Typic Paleorthids
  • PSC - 0 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: terrace—outwash or marine
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • 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

    BRRU2

    CORA

    YUBR

    Bromus rubens

    Coleogyne ramosissima

    Yucca brevifolia

    red brome

    blackbrush

    Joshua tree

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    0—5

    5—23

    23—0

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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

    6

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    1360

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    315

    23

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    15

    28

    8

    13

    27

    7

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    1A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; very gravelly loam; 23 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine vesicular and tubular and 2.5 fine vesicular and tubular pores; 30 percent fine spherical carbonate concretions; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05747; dry when described;. many fine carbonate concretions concentrations; common fine roots throughout; common very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bk—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium discontinuous tubular and 0.5 fine discontinuous tubular pores; 30 percent fine spherical carbonate concretions; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05748; dry when described;. Many very fine roots; roots also matted at bottom of horizon; few very fine tubular pores. Cobble size coarse fragments are hardpan fragments and about 1/3 of pebbles are hardpan fragments.; many fine carbonate concretions concentrations; few medium roots throughout; many fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bkm—23 centimeters (9.1 inches); indurated by carbonates; 1 percent fine irregular opal; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 86P05749. Indurated lime hardpan, i.e. petrocalcic horzion; hardpan surface has 3 to 5 mm thick lamianr cap; upper 5 to 15 cm of pan is cracked, allowing root penetration.; few fine opal crystals concentrations