IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bridgerton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11WY661001
  • User Pedon ID: S11WY035001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N8292
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47544
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 43.1311111
  • Std. Longitude: -110.2023621
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N
  • Range: 111W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: located approximately 630 ft. north and 470 ft. east of the SW corner.
  • Location Description: located approximately 11.5 miles ESE of Bondurant, WY. Located at the east rim snotel site.
  • County: WY035—Sublette
  • MLRA: 43B—Central Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY661—Teton National Forest, Wyoming, Parts of Teton, Fremont, Park, Sublette, and Lincoln Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dan Mattke & Kevin Godsey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic Eutric Haplocryalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bridgerton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic Eutric Haplocryalfs
  • PSC - 23 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from metamorphic and sedimentary rock over residuum weathered from claystone
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Bass Peak Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat rounded indurated 75- to 250-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/15/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    secondary carbonates

    0—13

    23—71

    71—200

    123—200

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    —-

    —-

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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

    15

    —

    —

    2448

    —

    0

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    460

    East Rim Divide

    SNOTEL
    Oe—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    A—4 to 13 centimeters (1.6 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face, dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face, dry; loam; 13 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 5.0 fine vesicular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    E—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; loam; 22 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine vesicular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    Bt1—23 to 42 centimeters (9.1 to 16.5 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face, dry; clay loam; 37 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 6.0 fine vesicular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 25 percent faint olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    Bt2—42 to 71 centimeters (16.5 to 28.0 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) broken face, olive (5Y 5/3) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; 37 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots between peds; 5.0 fine vesicular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 60 percent faint olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    2BC—71 to 123 centimeters (28.0 to 48.4 inches); 70 percent olive (5Y 5/3) broken face and 30 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, 70 percent pale olive (5Y 6/3) broken face and 30 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) broken face, dry; fine sandy loam; 16 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine vesicular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    2BCk1—123 to 155 centimeters (48.4 to 61.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, dry; silty clay; 41 percent clay; structureless massive; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 5 percent threadlike very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, carbonate masses on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular weakly coherent cemented 2-75-125 millimeter claystone fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear boundary.; observed in trench
    2BCk2—155 to 200 centimeters (61.0 to 78.7 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2) broken face, light olive gray (5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; 18 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 5 percent threadlike very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, carbonate masses on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular weakly coherent cemented 2-75-125 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in trench