IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orella
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1964WY015006
  • User Pedon ID: S1964WY015006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3127
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38256
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 41.9438896
  • Std. Longitude: -104.2261124
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23N
  • Range: 61W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 319 feet east and 105 feet north of the southwest corner
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY015—Goshen

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Arvad J. Cline
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Orella
  • PSC - 25 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/19/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/19/1964 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    381

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    9.4

    20.6

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; clay; moderate and strong very fine granular structure; hard, firm; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24444. A vesicular crust in the uppermost quarter inch.
    C1—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay; weak coarse angular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24445
    C2—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; clay; gypsum threads and 1 percent carbonate concretions and 1 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified; shale, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24446. Partly weathered clay shale; approximately 90 percent shale chips; weak accumulation of secondary calcium carbonate and calcium sulfate occurring as crystals and seams.
    C3—43 to 74 centimeters (16.9 to 29.1 inches); shale, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A24447. Weakly weathered shale beds.