IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Skilak
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986WY027012
  • User Pedon ID: 86WY027012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0953
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59247
  • 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: 43.2622223
  • Std. Longitude: -104.3608322
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY027—Niobrara

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Skilak
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Skilak
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Ustic Torriorthent
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium platy structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.
    1Bw—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.
    1C1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) interior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, moist; silt loam; weak coarse platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05722
    1C2—41 to 102 centimeters (16.1 to 40.2 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) interior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, moist; silt loam; weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 86P05723. Stratified with lenses of silt and very fine sandy loam.