IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Forkwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992WY019002
  • User Pedon ID: 92WY019002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0931
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65162
  • 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: 44.3438873
  • Std. Longitude: -106.5272217
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: NRST Site I-2 (Grass site). Buffalo, Wyoming.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY019—Johnson
  • MLRA: 58B—Northern Rolling High Plains, Southern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Michael Whited, John Warner, Phil Derr, Everett Bainter
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Forkwood
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Ustollic Haplargids
  • PSC - 5 to 54 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 Position: middle third
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—5

    5—54

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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

    7

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    1353

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    45

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P05587
    Bt1—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P05588. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 177882; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 177882
    Bt2—15 to 34 centimeters (5.9 to 13.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P05589. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 177883; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 177883
    Btk—34 to 54 centimeters (13.4 to 21.3 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent fine carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05590. patchy - phpvsfiid 177884; patchy - phpvsfiid 177884
    2Bk1—54 to 83 centimeters (21.3 to 32.7 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; gravelly loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fine and medium irregular carbonate threads and fine and medium irregular carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05591
    2Bk2—83 to 126 centimeters (32.7 to 49.6 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fine and medium irregular carbonate threads and fine and medium irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05592
    2C—126 to 154 centimeters (49.6 to 60.6 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; gravelly loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fine irregular carbonate threads and fine irregular carbonate masses; 1 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05593
    3AB—154 to 200 centimeters (60.6 to 78.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fine and medium carbonate threads and fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 92P05594