IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moenkopie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992UT015132C
  • User Pedon ID: 92UT015132C
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992UT015132C
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0984
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65224
  • 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: 38.7131119
  • Std. Longitude: -110.1288910
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Approximately 33 miles S of Green River, UT.
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT015—Emery
  • MLRA: 34—Central Desertic Basins, Mountains, and Plateaus
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38110-F2—Moonshine Wash, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MAW, RAF
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 132
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moenkopie
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed (calcareous) Lithic Torriorthents
  • PSC - 0 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/1992
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: bench
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/5/1992 (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
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ATCO

    PLEUR12

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Pleuraphis

    shadscale saltbush

    galleta grass

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—8

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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

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; fine sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak thick platy parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; slow permeability; 21.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular and 3.0 fine and medium vesicular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P06180. 25% gravel accounted for on surface of type III surface-still averages fine sandy loam
    C1—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; fine sandy loam; 58 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky parts to weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; slow permeability; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular and 3.0 medium tubular pores; 4 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary.
    C2—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; channery loam; 45 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular and 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. 75% shale fragments (15% did not slake in water)
    R1—28 to 33 centimeters (11.0 to 13.0 inches); 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine and medium roots; 21.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. fractured bedrock
    R2—33 centimeters (13.0 inches); fragments. unfractured bedrock