IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cluff Family
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990UT017001
  • User Pedon ID: 90UT017001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1990UT017001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P1025
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62958
  • 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: 38.0813904
  • Std. Longitude: -111.7036133
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31S
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT017—Garfield

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cluff Family
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, montmorillonitic Mollic Cryoboralfs
  • PSC - 15 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    PIEN

    Picea engelmannii

    Engelmann spruce

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—10

    20—61

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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

    8

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    2896

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    90

    56

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 90P06297. duff layer
    A—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; loam; 24 percent clay; moderate fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 medium and coarse roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P06298. trace of cobbles; common medium and coarse roots
    AB—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 medium and coarse roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P06299. trace of cobbles; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; common medium and coarse roots
    Bt1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; very cobbly clay; 42 percent clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 medium and coarse roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 55 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P06300. stones were present but not continuous throughout layer; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; common medium and coarse roots
    Bt2—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; very cobbly clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P06301. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine and medium roots; few coarse roots
    BC—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; extremely gravelly loam; 14 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P06302. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine and medium roots; few coarse roots
    C—94 to 140 centimeters (37.0 to 55.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; 10 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 90P06303. few fine and medium roots