IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nonip
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999UT017004
  • User Pedon ID: 99UT017004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999UT017004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0389
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11248
  • 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: 37.8097496
  • Std. Longitude: -111.1694412
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Circle Cliffs
  • Map Unit: 5111—Nonip extremely channery sandy loam, dry, 5 to 50 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-skeletal, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Lithic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nonip
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Snd-111
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed (calcareous), mesic Lithic Ustic Torr
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/1999
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent siltstone, calcareous at 17cm
  • Geology: Moenkopie Formation-upper Brown formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 11-26A-27
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    Chrysothamnus

    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

    2

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    1773

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    220

    254

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    140

    9

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    9.5

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P02137. effervescence: em (sl)
    A2—3 to 9 centimeters (1.2 to 3.5 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist; channery clay loam; 27 percent clay; strong fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 25 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P02138. effervescence: es (sl)
    C—9 to 17 centimeters (3.5 to 6.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist; extremely channery loam; 20 percent clay; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 99P02139. effervescence: em (sl)
    R—17 centimeters (6.7 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 99P02140. Moenkopi Siltstone.