IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keota
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1953WY015001
  • User Pedon ID: S1953WY015001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3451
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38566
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 42.4208336
  • Std. Longitude: -104.2061081
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 61W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 370 feet south and 45 feet west of northeast corner
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY015—Goshen

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. J. Box
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keota
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/1953
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/1953 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; single grain, and weak fine granular; hard, friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26726
    AC—6 to 14 centimeters (2.4 to 5.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loam; weak medium angular blocky parts to single grain, and weak very fine granular; friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26727
    C1—14 to 28 centimeters (5.5 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to single grain, and weak very fine granular; hard, friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26728
    C2—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; very fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 roots; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26729
    C3—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular, and single grain; very friable; 3.0 roots; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26730
    C4—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; massive; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A26731
    R—81 centimeters (31.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A26732. (Not sampled.) Calcareous fragmental Brule bedrock.