IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Forkwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992WY019002D
  • User Pedon ID: 92WY019002D
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P1003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65166
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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 I2, Satellite D.
  • 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 - 4 to 34 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—4

    4—34

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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 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P05607
    Bt—4 to 14 centimeters (1.6 to 5.5 inches);, dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05608. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 177887; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 177887
    Btk—14 to 34 centimeters (5.5 to 13.4 inches);, dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05609. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 177888; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 177888
    Bk—34 to 44 centimeters (13.4 to 17.3 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05610