IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Forkwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992WY019001B
  • User Pedon ID: 92WY019001B
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0928
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65159
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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 B
  • 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 45 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/1992
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • 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
  • Runoff: medium
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    12—45

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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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    1356

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    75

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; very slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P05575. recent Aeolian deposits
    A2—5 to 12 centimeters (2.0 to 4.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam, silt 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; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05576. true surface
    Bt1—12 to 25 centimeters (4.7 to 9.8 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent by volume scoria fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05577. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192747; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192747
    Bt2—25 to 45 centimeters (9.8 to 17.7 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent by volume scoria fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05578. patchy - phpvsfiid 192748; patchy - phpvsfiid 192748