IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Renohill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1954WY005001
  • User Pedon ID: S1954WY005001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1954WY005001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3466
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38581
  • 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: 44.2744446
  • Std. Longitude: -105.4286118
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 50N
  • Range: 71W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet south of northwest corner
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY005—Campbell

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. J. Cline
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Renohill
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/16/1954 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - 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

    SALVI

    Salvia

    sage

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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

    6

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    180

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable; ; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26825. Horizon is indefinitely platy in places.; patchy - phpvsfiid 196670; patchy - phpvsfiid 196670
    B1—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; clay loam; weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable; 10 percent clay films; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26826. A few very indistinct and patchy clay skins visible only with hand lens.; patchy - phpvsfiid 196671; patchy - phpvsfiid 196671
    B2t—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; silty clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 30 percent prominent clay films; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A26827
    B3ca—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), dry; clay loam; 21 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 1 percent carbonate concretions and carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26828. A few small concretions and mycelia of calcium carbonate; horizon contains a few partially weathered shale fragments.
    C1ca—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; loam; 3 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) medium distinct mottles; massive; very hard, friable; 3 percent carbonate masses and carbonate concretions and carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26829. Moderate amounts of accumulated lime chiefly as lime flour but with some concretionary and mycelial forms; horizon contains partially weathered shale fragments.
    C2ca—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; clay loam; 3 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) medium distinct mottles; massive; very hard, firm; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26830. Moderate accumulation of calcium carbonate chiefly as lime flour; many partially weathered shale fragments.
    R—74 to 102 centimeters (29.1 to 40.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; massive; very hard, very firm; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A26831. Texture varies depending upon character of shale; generally massive but occasionally breaks to thin plate-like aggregates that are characteristic of the shale; a horizon of weakly consolidated clay shale and interbedded siltstones and sandstones of the Fort Union formation.