IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rockinchair
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987WY037001
  • User Pedon ID: 87WY037001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0095
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60218
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 41.0266685
  • Std. Longitude: -109.8458328
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 110W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet S and 300 feet E of NW corner
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY037—Sweetwater

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, carbonatic, frigid Borollic Calciorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockinchair
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rootel
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Borollic Calciorthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1987 (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); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine platy, and weak very fine granular structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00535. few very fine roots
    1A2—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P00536. many very fine and fine roots
    2Bk—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; extremely cobbly loam; 21 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. A hard gray 1 m layer of fragmented cap rock angular 3 to 25 cm in size.; common very fine roots; few medium roots
    2Bky2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, dry; loam; 21 percent clay; massive; soft, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. few very fine roots; few medium roots
    1R—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, 10 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/3) interior, dry; 30 percent clay; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. 90% fractured R, hard gray lime.