IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canyon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992UT055143A
  • User Pedon ID: 92UT055143A
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992UT055143A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0891
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65131
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 38.4669991
  • Std. Longitude: -110.1409988
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 32 miles E/NE of Hanksville, UT and 50 miles S of Green River, UT.
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT055—Wayne
  • MLRA: 35—Colorado Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT631—Henry Mountains Area, Utah, Parts of Garfield, Kane, and Wayne Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38110-D2—Sugarloaf Butte, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RAF
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 143
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Canyon
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed (calcareous), shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • PSC - 0 to 10 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/22/1992
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/22/1992 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    CHRYS9

    CORA

    PLEUR12

    Chrysothamnus

    Coleogyne ramosissima

    Pleuraphis

    rabbitbrush

    blackbrush

    galleta grass

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—3

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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

    15

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6), red (2.5YR 4/6), moist; very gravelly fine sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 10 percent clay; moderate thick platy parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; slow permeability; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular and 21.0 very fine and fine vesicular and 0.5 medium vesicular pores; 0 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P05496
    C1—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; loam; 40 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 25 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 0 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P05497
    C2—8 to 10 centimeters (3.1 to 3.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; clay loam; 37 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 0 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05498. Rock structure all slakes in H20 except for 15%.
    Cr—10 centimeters (3.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Weathered shale bedrock.