IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hillburn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999UT017005
  • User Pedon ID: 99UT017005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999UT017005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0390
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11249
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 37.8640556
  • Std. Longitude: -111.2231140
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 5106—Hillburn, dry-Badland, Moenkopi Formation, complex, 25 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-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 #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hillburn
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Snd-106
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed (calcareous), mesic Lithic U
  • Classificaton Date - 10/14/1999
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/14/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 12-25A-31
  • 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

    GUTIE

    JUNIP

    SHEPH

    Ephedra viridis

    Gutierrezia

    Juniperus

    Shepherdia

    mormon tea

    snakeweed

    juniper

    buffaloberry

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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

    60

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    1718

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    285

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    A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly loam; 23 percent clay; moderate very thick platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine vesicular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P02141. effervescence: e
    Bw—4 to 17 centimeters (1.6 to 6.7 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4), dry; very gravelly clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P02142. effervescence: em
    Cr—17 to 37 centimeters (6.7 to 14.6 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dry; extremely gravelly clay loam; 32 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots and medium roots; 75 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P02143. effervescence: em
    R—37 centimeters (14.6 inches); massive; 1.0 very fine roots in cracks; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P02144. fractured Moenkopi