IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hiko Springs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966UT027001
  • User Pedon ID: S1966UT027001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0953
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34012
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 38.6202774
  • Std. Longitude: -113.8555527
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25S
  • Range: 18W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 198 feet west and 20 feet south of the southeast corner of the exclosure; NE 1/4 of the SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Desert Range Experiment Station, near exclosure No 3, white-sage-yellowbrush. (UT 4-66A).
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT027—Millard
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT632—Delta Area, Utah - Part of Millard County

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Vern K. Hugie and Klaus W. Flach
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hiko Springs
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/2/1966 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    2

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    1890

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    45

    152

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    10

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    A11—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; gravelly loam; moderate thin platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine and medium interstitial and 0.5 vesicular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07178
    A12—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; weak medium, and thick platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine and medium interstitial and 0.5 tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07179
    B21—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07180. secondary carbonate coating on underside of pebbles.
    B22—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07181. secondary carbonate coating on underside of pebbles.
    C1ca—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), very pale brown (10YR 8/3), dry; loam; weak medium platy structure; very hard, friable, moderately cemented, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 21 percent carbonate concretions; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07182. secondary carbonate coating on pebbles.
    C2ca—81 to 89 centimeters (31.9 to 35.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; sandy loam; moderate thick platy structure; extremely hard, firm, strongly cemented, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 21 percent carbonate concretions; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07183
    C3ca—89 to 122 centimeters (35.0 to 48.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine tubular pores; carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 21 percent carbonate concretions; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07184. secondary carbonate coating and pendents on underside of pebbles.
    C4—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; Error; massive; moderately cemented; 21 percent carbonate concretions; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A07185