IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mespun
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997UT017001
  • User Pedon ID: 97UT017001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1997UT017001
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0085
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10357
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 37.7561378
  • Std. Longitude: -111.4368362
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Unsurveyed area.
  • Map Unit: 5086—Mespun-Bispen-Santrick complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT017—Garfield
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT686—Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Area, Parts of Kane and Garfield Counties, Utah
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37111-G4—Calf Creek, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Siliceous, mesic Ustic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mespun
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mespun
  • Taxonomic Class - Siliceous, mesic Ustic Torripsamment
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/5/1997
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: dune
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/5/1997 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACHY

    ARFI2

    BOGR2

    CHRYS9

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Artemisia filifolia

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Chrysothamnus

    Indian ricegrass

    sand sagebrush

    blue grama

    rabbitbrush

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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

    8

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    1775

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    45

    275

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    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist; fine sand; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P00535
    C1—9 to 105 centimeters (3.5 to 41.3 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist; fine sand; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P00536
    C2—105 to 150 centimeters (41.3 to 59.1 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist; fine sand; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 98P00537