IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Minchey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990UT015004
  • User Pedon ID: 90UT015004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P1042
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62975
  • 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: 39.4511108
  • Std. Longitude: -110.7866669
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16S
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet W and 1800 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: North Emery County, North of Elmo.
  • Map Unit: 178—Vickel-Utaline-Persayo complex, 8 to 45 percent slopes
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT015—Emery
  • MLRA: 34B—Warm Central Desertic Basins and Plateaus
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT623—Emery Area, Utah, Parts of Emery, Carbon, Grand, and Sevier Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39110-D7—Elmo, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sasser, Leland
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Minchey
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Minchey
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landform: mesa or butte
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1990 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—23

    23—106

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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

    1

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    1753

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    0

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium platy, and moderate fine platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-50-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bw—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-50-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear wavy boundary.
    Bk1—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 26 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-50-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary.
    Bk2—51 to 79 centimeters (20.1 to 31.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; clay loam; 25 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-50-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bk3—79 to 106 centimeters (31.1 to 41.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; 26 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-150-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-50-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; clear wavy boundary.
    C—106 to 160 centimeters (41.7 to 63.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; very cobbly sandy loam; 18 percent clay; single grain; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 251-400-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-150-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-50-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4.