IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Forkwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992WY019001C
  • User Pedon ID: 92WY019001C
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0929
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65160
  • 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 C
  • 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 - 5 to 15 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

    5—15

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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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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P05579
    Bt—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P05580. patchy - phpvsfiid 192749; patchy - phpvsfiid 192749
    Ab—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 1 percent by volume scoria fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05581
    Btb—30 to 44 centimeters (11.8 to 17.3 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; silty clay; moderate fine and medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores and dark brown (10YR 3/3) pressure faces; 1 percent by volume scoria fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05582. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192750; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192750