IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ulm
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1954WY005004
  • User Pedon ID: S1954WY005004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1954WY005004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3475
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38590
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 43.6244431
  • Std. Longitude: -105.7677765
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 42N
  • Range: 74W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: Northeast quarter of southeast quarter
  • Location Description: 2 miles east of Pinetree, Wyoming.
  • 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 #: 4
  • 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

    3

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    90

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    A1—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; weak fine platy parts to moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26888
    B1—11 to 20 centimeters (4.3 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay loam; weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26889
    B21t—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; clay loam; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm; 30 percent prominent clay films; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26890
    B22t—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; clay loam; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 30 percent prominent clay films; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26891
    B3ca—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); olive (5Y 4/3), olive (5Y 5/3), dry; clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm; 10 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26892. The horizon contains a few small concretions of calcium carbonate.
    C1ca—69 to 97 centimeters (27.2 to 38.2 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), pale olive (5Y 6/3), dry; loam; massive, and weak coarse subangular blocky; hard, firm; 30 percent carbonate concretions and carbonate masses and 1 percent carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26893. Moderate amounts of accumulated calcium carbonate chiefly as lime four but containing a few small concretions and mycelia.
    C2ca—97 centimeters (38.2 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), pale olive (5Y 6/3), dry; loam; massive; hard, firm; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A26894. Grades to weakly indurated and only slightly weathered loamstone, siltstone, and sandstone of the Fort Union formation below 40 inches.