IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alldown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990UT055001
  • User Pedon ID: 90UT055001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P1024
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62957
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 38.3894463
  • Std. Longitude: -111.6063919
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28S
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 2550 feet S and 1200 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: About 1 mile W of Lyman.
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT055—Wayne
  • MLRA: 47—Wasatch and Uinta Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: V. Parslow
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alldown
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed (calcareous) Ustic Torriorthents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: playa or alluvial flat
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • 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 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    0—30

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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

    2

    —

    —

    2163

    —

    270

    20

    —

    —

    6

    —

    —

    7

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    5148

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; weak thin platy, and moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P06290. common fine roots; many very fine roots
    Ap2—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P06291. common very fine and fine roots
    C1—30 to 74 centimeters (11.8 to 29.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; loam; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 medium tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P06292. few very fine and fine roots
    C2—74 to 112 centimeters (29.1 to 44.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; loam; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 90P06293. few very fine and fine roots
    2C3—112 to 132 centimeters (44.1 to 52.0 inches); silt loam; single grain; loose; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 90P06294. 40% discontinuous very gravelly loamy sand lense 90P6296; few very fine and fine roots
    3C4—132 to 170 centimeters (52.0 to 66.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; loam; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 90P06295. few very fine and fine roots