IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Simel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999UT017002
  • User Pedon ID: 99UT017002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999UT017002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0387
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11246
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.8371391
  • Std. Longitude: -111.1963577
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Circle Cliffs
  • Map Unit: 5107—Simel-Hillburn, dry complex, 5 to 45 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-G2—Pioneer Mesa, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Lithic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Simel
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Snd-107
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed (calcareous), mesic Lithic Ustic Torr
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/1999
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 11-26A-29
  • 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

    EPVI

    Ephedra viridis

    mormon tea

    —

    —

    —
    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

    3

    —

    —

    1733

    —

    180

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A1—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; very channery clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate thin, and medium platy structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P02124. effervescence: es (sl)
    Bw—1 to 9 centimeters (0.4 to 3.5 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P02125. effervescence: es (sl)
    C—9 to 16 centimeters (3.5 to 6.3 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; 1.0 fine roots; 85 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 99P02126. weathered siltstone and shale.
    Cr—16 to 33 centimeters (6.3 to 13.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 5/3); fragments. Lab sample # 99P02127. weathered siltstone and shale.
    R—33 centimeters (13.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 99P02128. Moenkopic sis/shale.