IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Youjay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11WY037003
  • User Pedon ID: S11WY037003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11WY037003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/8/2025

    • 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: 41.5593111
  • Std. Longitude: -110.0362528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 463—Kandaly-Moyerson-Wint taxadjunct complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY037—Sweetwater
  • MLRA: 34A—Cool Central Desertic Basins and Plateaus
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY737—Sweetwater County Area, Wyoming

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jason Martin, Sherlynette Perez-Castro
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, frigid, shallow Typic Natrargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Youjay
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, smectitic, frigid, shallow Typic Natrargids
  • PSC - 0 to 35 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/12/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: basin-floor remnant
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent moderate weathered shale, unspecified at 35cm and a dip of 0 to 10 degrees
  • Geology: Bridger Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 5- to 75-millimeter dolomite (dolostone),
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/12/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Plant Association Name: Shale 7-9" GR
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 16
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACHY

    ATGA

    ELELE

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Atriplex gardneri

    Elymus elymoides ssp. elymoides

    Indian ricegrass

    Gardner's saltbush

    squirreltail

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    natric

    bedrock, paralithic

    noncoherent

    moderately coherent

    8 - 25

    35 - 67

    - 17 -

    - 32 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    natric horizon

    gypsum accumulations

    paralithic materials

    paralithic contact

    0—8

    8—25

    25—35

    25—35

    35—35

    —8—

    —17—

    —10—

    —10—

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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

    0

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    1919

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    E—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N02084; dry when described; observed in trench
    Btn—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; clay loam; 38 percent clay; strong coarse columnar structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium irregular and 1.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.1, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N02085; dry when described; observed in trench
    BCy—25 to 35 centimeters (9.8 to 13.8 inches); parachanners; structureless massive; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented gypsum masses with clear boundaries around rock fragments; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in trench
    Cr—35 to 67 centimeters (13.8 to 26.4 inches); bedrock; fragments.; dry when described; observed in trench