IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kishona
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991WY045001B
  • User Pedon ID: 91WY045001B
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0979
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64016
  • 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: 43.7500000
  • Std. Longitude: -104.3750000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 44N
  • Range: 63W
  • Section: 27
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY045—Weston

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Franks
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kishona
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1991
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1991 (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
    • 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

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P06149. many very fine and fine roots
    Bw1—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P06150. few fine roots; many very fine roots
    Bw2—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P06151. few very fine roots
    C—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P06152. calcium carbonate particles; few very fine roots