IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Forkwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992WY019002B
  • User Pedon ID: 92WY019002B
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0933
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65164
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: I2-B
  • 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: research site
  • 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 16 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—16

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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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    1353

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    45

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P05599
    Bt—5 to 16 centimeters (2.0 to 6.3 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05600
    2AB—16 to 26 centimeters (6.3 to 10.2 inches);, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very sticky, very plastic; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05601
    2Bt—26 to 56 centimeters (10.2 to 22.0 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very sticky, very plastic; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05602
    2Bk—56 centimeters (22.0 inches); fragments.