IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Como
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992UT009001
  • User Pedon ID: 92UT009001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992UT009001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0353
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64592
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 40.9033318
  • Std. Longitude: -109.8874969
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 15
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT009—Daggett
  • MLRA: 47—Wasatch and Uinta Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT648—Ashley National Forest Area, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Lewis, R. Fish
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Como
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed Typic Cryochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/25/1992
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/25/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 2
  • Microrelief Elevation: 0
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ANTEN

    ARUV

    PICO

    POTRT

    SIHY

    Antennaria

    Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

    Pinus contorta

    Populus tremula ssp. tremuloides

    Sitanion hystrix

    pussytoes

    kinnikinnick

    lodgepole pine

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—69

    8—25

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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

    30

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    2659

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    180

    254

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    10

    12.8

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    11.1

    12.2

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry; channery sandy loam; 13 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume angular 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02164; moist when described;
    Bw—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), light reddish brown (5YR 6/3), dry; flaggy loamy sand; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume angular 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02165; moist when described;
    C1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), reddish brown (5YR 5/3), dry; extremely flaggy loamy sand; 8 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 25 percent by volume angular 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02166; moist when described;
    C2—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), reddish brown (5YR 5/3), dry; extremely flaggy loamy sand; 4 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 35 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02167; moist when described;
    R—69 centimeters (27.2 inches); fragments. No sample