IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Splimo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 91UT015002
  • User Pedon ID: 90UT015002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 91UT015002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024
  • 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: 39.0117056
  • Std. Longitude: -110.5116528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20.5S.
  • Range: 13E.
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 4,400 feet south and 950 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: in an area with no public land survey
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT015—Emery
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT625—Emery County, Utah, Eastern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39110-A5—Devils Hole, Utah
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sasser, Leland
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic Lithic Ustic Calciorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • 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: slope alluvium derived from limestone and sandstone over residuum weathered from limestone and sandstone
  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone and sandstone at 46cm
  • Surface Fragments: 0.50 percent indurated 250- to 600-millimeter sedimentary, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/14/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Sasser, Leland
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    A

    Bk1

    Bk2

    0

    10

    28

    10

    28

    46

    Sasser, Leland

    Sasser, Leland

    Sasser, Leland

    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    A

    Bk1

    Bk2

    0

    10

    28

    10

    28

    46

    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    A

    Bk1

    Bk2

    0

    10

    28

    10

    28

    46

    27

    33

    58

    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    JUOS

    ACHY

    EPHED

    ARNO4

    ATCO

    PLJA

    Juniperus osteosperma

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Ephedra

    Artemisia nova

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Pleuraphis jamesii

    Utah juniper

    Indian ricegrass

    jointfir

    black sagebrush

    shadscale saltbush

    James' galleta

    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    46 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—10

    28—46

    46—

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    8

    1548.4

    338

    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly fine sandy loam; 13 percent clay; weak medium platy parts to weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots and few medium roots and few fine roots and few coarse roots; many very fine interstitial and many very fine tubular and many fine interstitial and many fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bk1—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; gravelly fine sandy loam; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots and few medium roots and few fine roots and very few coarse roots; many very fine interstitial and many very fine tubular and many fine interstitial and many fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary.
    Bk2—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; very gravelly fine sandy loam; 13 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots and few fine roots; common very fine interstitial and common very fine tubular and common fine interstitial and common fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary.
    R—46 centimeters (18.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.