IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Reef
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89UT017001copy
  • User Pedon ID: 89UT017001copy
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 89UT017001copy
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0039
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65383
  • 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: 37.8574867
  • Std. Longitude: -111.0612946
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34S
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet W and 500 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: 2 1/4 miles NNW of Burr Canyon.
  • Map Unit: 75—Reef-Rizno-Rock outcrop complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT017—Garfield
  • MLRA: 35—Colorado Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. Swenn, D. Trickler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Lithic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Reef
  • Classificaton Date - 11/18/2012
  • Classifier - B. Johnson, V. Parslow
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Reef
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/1989
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hillside
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/25/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • 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

    ACHY

    CEMOG

    EPHED

    EPVI

    GUSA2

    JUOS

    PIED

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Cercocarpus montanus var. glaber

    Ephedra

    Ephedra viridis

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Juniperus osteosperma

    Pinus edulis

    Indian ricegrass

    birchleaf mountain mahogany

    jointfir

    mormon tea

    broom snakeweed

    Utah juniper

    twoneedle pinyon

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—8

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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

    9

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    1914

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    120

    279

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    150

    9.5

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; very channery fine sandy loam; weak fine platy parts to moderate fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine and 3.0 fine and medium pores; 40 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00310
    C—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; very channery fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 0.5 very fine pores; 10 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P00311
    R—20 to 45 centimeters (7.9 to 17.7 inches); bedrock; fragments. sandstone bedrock; Timpoweap member of the Moenkopi Formation.