IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lemrac
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999UT017001
  • User Pedon ID: 99UT017001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999UT017001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0386
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11245
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 37.5602493
  • Std. Longitude: -111.2972260
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 25 mile wash road
  • Map Unit: 5010—Retsabal-Lemrac complex, 2 to 60 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-E3—Sunset Flat, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, gypsic, mesic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lemrac
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lemrac
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, gypsic, mesic Ustic Torriorthent
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/17/1999
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Bedrock: moderately coherent gypsum, rock at 202cm
  • Geology: Carmel-winsor Member Gypsum formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/17/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    CHRYS9

    YUCCA

    Chrysothamnus

    Yucca

    rabbitbrush

    yucca

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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

    172

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    1522

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    180

    254

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    140

    9

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    9.5

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    A1—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; loam; 16 percent clay; moderate thin, and medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P02118. effervescence: es
    A2—1 to 4 centimeters (0.4 to 1.6 inches); white (10YR 8/1), very pale brown (10YR 8/3), moist; loam; 10 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P02119. structure: lower 3-4cm is 2fmpl; effervescence: es
    C1—4 to 31 centimeters (1.6 to 12.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; loam; 10 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine to medium roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P02120. effervescence: es
    C2—31 to 57 centimeters (12.2 to 22.4 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), very pale brown (10YR 8/3), moist; loam; 10 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very coarse roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P02121. effervescence: es
    Cr—57 to 90 centimeters (22.4 to 35.4 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 99P02122
    R—202 to 210 centimeters (79.5 to 82.7 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 99P02123. hard Gypsum Bedrock collected from about 35 feet to the west at head of a gully.