IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bruman
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 90UT629002VP
  • User Pedon ID: 90UT629002VP
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 90UT629002VP
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P1028
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62961
  • 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: 38.3258333
  • Std. Longitude: -111.5341667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28S
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet N and 2000 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: About 1 mile S of Bicknell.
  • Map Unit: BRC—Bruman gravelly fine sandy loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT055—Wayne
  • MLRA: 47—Wasatch and Uinta Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT629—Loa-Marysvale Area, Utah, Parts of Piute, Wayne, and Garfield Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Parslow, Vic
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bruman
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/30/1990
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/30/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    BOGR2

    CHVI8

    HIJA

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

    Hilaria jamesii

    blue grama

    yellow rabbitbrush

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—13

    13—56

    56—127

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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

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    2135

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    270

    20

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    6

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    7

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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly fine sandy loam; 76 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak fine platy, and moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 25 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P6316. few coarse roots; common medium roots
    Bw—12 to 57 centimeters (4.7 to 22.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; gravelly loamy sand; 78 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 8 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P6317. thin lime coatings on rock fragments, thickest on the undersides; few medium and coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bk1—57 to 81 centimeters (22.4 to 31.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 72 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 11 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P6318. thin lime coatings on all sides of rock fragments; few very fine and fine roots
    Bk2—81 to 97 centimeters (31.9 to 38.2 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), pink (7.5YR 7/4), dry; extremely cobbly sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 13 percent clay; strong medium platy structure; very hard, very firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P6319. few very fine roots
    Bk3—97 to 128 centimeters (38.2 to 50.4 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), pink (7.5YR 7/4), dry; extremely cobbly loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 7 percent clay; massive; very hard, very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P6320. carbonate masses below and around coarse fragments; few very fine roots
    CBk—128 to 175 centimeters (50.4 to 68.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), pink (7.5YR 7/4), dry; extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 9 percent clay; massive; hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 90P6321. few very fine roots