IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Forkwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992WY019001D
  • User Pedon ID: 92WY019001D
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0930
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65161
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 44.3341675
  • Std. Longitude: -106.5269470
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: I1, Satellite D
  • 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 - 3 to 31 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—31

    3—31

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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 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak fine angular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05583
    Bt1—3 to 9 centimeters (1.2 to 3.5 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05584. patchy - phpvsfiid 192752; patchy - phpvsfiid 192752
    Bt2—9 to 31 centimeters (3.5 to 12.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) pressure faces; 1 percent by volume scoria fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05585. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192753; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192753
    Bk—31 to 51 centimeters (12.2 to 20.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay loam, silty clay; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 5 percent fine and medium lime masses and 5 percent fine and medium carbonate threads; 1 percent by volume scoria fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05586