IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Larimer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958WY031004
  • User Pedon ID: S1958WY031004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3455
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38570
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 42.0875015
  • Std. Longitude: -105.0336075
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 68W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: southwest quarter of northeast quarter of northwest quarter, beginning at northwest corner (center of road junction) then east 1862 feet and south 681 feet.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY031—Platte
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY031—Platte County, Wyoming

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. J. Cline and Fraser Stephens
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Larimer
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/7/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very hard, friable; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26752. Horizon temperature 17 degrees centigrade.
    B2t—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26753. Horizon temperature 15.5 degrees centigrade.; continuous - phpvsfiid 187126; continuous - phpvsfiid 187126
    B3ca—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; sandy clay loam; weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26754. This is a moderate horizon of lime accumulation with visible lime occurring as concretions; horizon temperature 15.5 degrees centigrade.; patchy - phpvsfiid 187127; patchy - phpvsfiid 187127
    Cca—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry; gravelly sandy clay loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable; 21 percent carbonate concretions; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26755. This is a strong horizon of lime accumulation with visible lime occurring in divided forms; approximately 30 percent of this is gravel and cobble; horizon temperature 15.5 degrees centigrade.
    Dca—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; single grain; loose, loose; carbonate concretions; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 40A26756. approximately 25 percent of this horizon is gravel and cobble; there is lime coating the gravel and cobble fragments; horizon temperature 15.5 degrees centigrade.