IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sheppard
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 91UT015001
  • User Pedon ID: 90UT015001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 91UT015001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • 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: 38.5150944
  • Std. Longitude: -110.6395278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26S.
  • Range: 12E.
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 1,050 feet north and 800 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: southern Emery County, 1.25 miles north of Wayne Co. line, east side of road
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT015—Emery
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT625—Emery County, Utah, Eastern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38110-E6—Goblin Valley, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sasser, Leland
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Typic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands
  • Landform: dune
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/2/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Sasser, Leland
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARFI2

    MUPU2

    ACHY

    OPUNT

    YUCCA

    Artemisia filifolia

    Muhlenbergia pungens

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Opuntia

    Yucca

    sand sagebrush

    sandhill muhly

    Indian ricegrass

    pricklypear

    yucca

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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

    4.5

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    1456.9

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    45

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    C1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; fine sand; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots and few medium roots and few fine roots; 2 percent by volume very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    C2—13 to 107 centimeters (5.1 to 42.1 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; loamy fine sand; 4 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots and few medium roots and few fine roots; 1 percent by volume very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    C3—107 to 165 centimeters (42.1 to 65.0 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; loamy fine sand; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots; 15 percent carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments; 12 percent by volume very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence.