IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Forkwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992WY019001A
  • User Pedon ID: 92WY019001A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0927
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65158
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 44.3341675
  • Std. Longitude: -106.5269470
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: I1, Satellite A.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY019—Johnson
  • MLRA: 58B—Northern Rolling High Plains, Southern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Michael Whited, John Warner, Everett Bainter, Phil Derr
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Forkwood
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Ustollic Haplargids
  • PSC - 12 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/1992
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/9/1992 (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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    4—65

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    —

    1356

    —

    75

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; very slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P05571. surface - moderate platy vesicular crust
    Bt1—4 to 12 centimeters (1.6 to 4.7 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak thin platy structure; very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P05572
    Bt2—12 to 41 centimeters (4.7 to 16.1 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 1 percent by volume scoria fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05573
    Bt3—41 to 65 centimeters (16.1 to 25.6 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent fine carbonate threads; 1 percent by volume scoria fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 92P05574