IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Saseep
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996UT015003
  • User Pedon ID: 96UT015003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0107
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68582
  • Print Date: 1/10/2025

    • 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: 39.2090569
  • Std. Longitude: -111.0402222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18S
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 1270 feet North and 775 feet West SE Corner
  • Location Description: about 1 mile WSW of Castle Dale, Utah.
  • Map Unit: 088—Libbings-Saseep complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT015—Emery
  • MLRA: 34B—Warm Central Desertic Basins and Plateaus
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT623—Emery Area, Utah, Parts of Emery, Carbon, Grand, and Sevier Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39111-B1—Castle Dale, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, calcareous, mesic Typic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Saseep
  • PSC - 25 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Libbings
  • Classificaton Date - 11/21/1996
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: ridge
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Bedrock: s moderate weathered shale, calcareous with <10
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/21/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 21
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    1749

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    45

    194

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    24

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    25

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    Castle Dale

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) very gravelly loam; 3 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) medium prominent mottles; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses between peds; 3 percent medium and coarse irregular very dark gray (10YR 3/1) throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P00735
    Bg1—10 to 31 centimeters (3.9 to 12.2 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) gravelly silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent and 1 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) medium prominent and 3 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine and medium distinct mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses between peds; 1 percent medium irregular very dark gray (10YR 3/1) throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P00736
    Bg2—31 to 47 centimeters (12.2 to 18.5 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) very gravelly silty clay loam; 3 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) fine and medium distinct and 3 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) fine prominent mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses between peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P00737
    Byzg—47 to 60 centimeters (18.5 to 23.6 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) very gravelly silty clay loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine prominent and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent and 21 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) fine and medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses between peds; 3 percent fine dendritic salt crystals between peds and 3 percent fine and medium irregular gypsum masses throughout; shale, clayey fragments and 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P00738
    Cyz—60 to 86 centimeters (23.6 to 33.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; 3 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine and medium distinct and 3 percent gray (2.5Y 5/1) medium faint mottles; weak fine and medium angular blocky parts to weak medium platy structure; hard, firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots between peds and 1.0 fine roots between peds; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses between peds; 1 percent fine irregular salt crystals between peds and 1 percent fine irregular gypsum masses throughout; shale, clayey fragments and 45 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P00739. Cyz horizon Angular blocky and platy structure is from Rock structure of broken weathered shale plates
    Cr—86 centimeters (33.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) bedrock; thick platy structure; 1.0 very fine roots in cracks; 1 percent fine dendritic salt crystals around rock fragments and 1 percent fine irregular gypsum crystal clusters around rock fragments; 75-162-250 millimeter shale, clayey fragments and 95 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments.