IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Enos
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965WY013014
  • User Pedon ID: S1965WY013014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965WY013014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3110
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38239
  • Print Date: 9/23/2024

    • 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: 43.2066650
  • Std. Longitude: -108.7577744
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4, NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Start at intersection of Pilot Butte Power Plant access and county road. Proceed 693 feet in northwest traverse to top of ridge with outcroppings of sandstone. TL2 photo CCK-13N-82.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY013—Fremont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY677—Fremont County, Wyoming, Lander Area

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Harold Bindschadler
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Enos
  • PSC - 25 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/27/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/27/1965 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: CCK-13N-8
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind and water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACHY

    BOGR2

    POSE

    POSE

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Poa secunda

    Poa secunda

    Indian ricegrass

    blue grama

    Sandberg bluegrass

    Sandberg bluegrass

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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

    2

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    1661

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    229

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    10.6

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24310
    B1—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; loamy sand; single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24311
    B21t—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24312
    B22t—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; sandy loam; strong coarse prismatic parts to weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; coats on vertical faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24313
    C1ca—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); gray (5Y 5/1), light gray (5Y 7/1) and greenish gray (5GY 6/1), dry; loam; massive; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24314. Some thin soft flakes of limestone; secondary lime in reticulate form.
    C2ca—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); gray (5Y 6/1), light gray (5Y 7/1) and light greenish gray (5GY 7/1), dry; strong medium platy structure; hard, friable; gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24315. Fissures filled with secondary lime and gypsum.
    C3ca—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); carbonate concretions; sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A24316. Gray, noncalcareous medium grained sandstone; fissures and cracks filled with hard secondary carbonates.