IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Skos
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992UT037176A
  • User Pedon ID: 92UT037176A
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992UT037176A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0901
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65141
  • 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: 37.4850006
  • Std. Longitude: -110.1888885
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Red House Springs area
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT037—San Juan
  • MLRA: 35—Colorado Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT638—San Juan County, Utah, Central Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RAF
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 176
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Skos
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed (calcareous), shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • PSC - 0 to 10 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/1992
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/1992 (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

    CORA

    JUOS

    YUCCA

    Coleogyne ramosissima

    Juniperus osteosperma

    Yucca

    blackbrush

    Utah juniper

    yucca

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—4

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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 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 10 percent clay; moderate thick platy parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; slow permeability; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 21.0 very fine and fine vesicular and 21.0 medium vesicular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P05519. 15% gravel in the horizon on average; gravel is based on surface rocks also
    C—4 to 10 centimeters (1.6 to 3.9 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6), red (2.5YR 4/6), moist; channery loam; 36 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 24 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05520. 75% shale fragments in the horizon - only 25% will not slake in water
    Cr—10 centimeters (3.9 inches); 3.0 very fine and fine roots in cracks and 0.5 medium and coarse roots in cracks; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments. shale bedrock (fractured)