IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ulm
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1954WY005003
  • User Pedon ID: S1954WY005003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1954WY005003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3474
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38589
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 43.7133331
  • Std. Longitude: -105.5908356
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 43N
  • Range: 73W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: Northwest quarter of southeast quarter
  • 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 #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ulm
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/1954
  • 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: 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

    ACHNA

    BUDA

    SALVI

    Achnatherum

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Salvia

    needlegrass

    buffalograss

    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

    4

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    135

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; moderate fine platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26880. The horizon is slightly lighter-colored in the lower 1/2-inch.
    B1—8 to 14 centimeters (3.1 to 5.5 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; very pale brown (10YR 8/2) coats on upper surfaces of peds or rocks and 10 percent clay films on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26881. Aggregates have a weak coating of 10YR 8/2 in the upper portion of this horizon.; patchy - phpvsfiid 196677; patchy - phpvsfiid 196677
    B21t—14 to 25 centimeters (5.5 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; strong medium prismatic, and strong medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm; 30 percent prominent clay films; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26882
    B22t—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm; 10 percent clay films; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26883
    B3ca—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 1 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26884
    C1ca—61 to 89 centimeters (24.0 to 35.0 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), pale olive (5Y 6/3), dry; loam; 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) faint mottles; massive, and weak coarse subangular blocky; very hard, firm; carbonate concretions and carbonate masses and carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26885. Much accumulated calcium carbonate principally as lime flour but containing some concretionary and mycelial forms.
    C2ca—89 to 114 centimeters (35.0 to 44.9 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), pale olive (5Y 6/3), dry; loam; 1 percent olive (5Y 5/6) faint mottles; massive; hard, friable; carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26886. Horizon contains much accumulated lime chiefly as lime flour.
    R—114 to 135 centimeters (44.9 to 53.1 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), pale olive (5Y 6/3), dry; loam; 1 percent olive (5Y 5/6) faint mottles; massive; hard, friable; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A26887. This is a horizon of partially disintegrated very weakly indurated siltstone, loamstone, and sandstone of the Fort Union formation.