IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dera
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966UT027005
  • User Pedon ID: S1966UT027005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1966UT027005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0959
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34018
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 38.6083336
  • Std. Longitude: -113.7805557
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25S
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Desert Range Experiment Station, 21 feet west and 25 feet north from the southeast corner of exclosure No 1, paddock 16. (UT 6-66B).
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT027—Millard
  • MLRA: 28A—Ancient Lake Bonneville
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT617—West Millard-Juab Area, Utah, Parts of Millard and Juab Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Vern K. Hugie and Klaus W. Flach
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic Typic Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dera
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sardo
  • Classificaton Date - 5/3/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/3/1966 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ATCO

    PLEUR12

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Pleuraphis

    shadscale saltbush

    galleta grass

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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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    1615

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    45

    152

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    10

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak thin, and medium platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07218
    B2—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky 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; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07219. secondary carbonate coating on underside of pebbles.
    C1ca—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; carbonate coats; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07220. secondary carbonate coating on pebbles.
    IIC2ca—56 to 102 centimeters (22.0 to 40.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; stratified very gravelly sandy loam to loamy sand to sand; massive; loose, loose, moderately coherent by carbonates; 0.5 fine roots; carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, thymol-blue; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07221. moderately cemented with secondary carbonates on underside of pebbles.
    IIC3—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; stratified very gravelly sandy loam to loamy sand to sand; massive; loose, loose, weakly coherent by carbonates; 0.5 fine roots; carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 40A07222. secondary carbonate pendents on underside of pebbles.