IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sawcreek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967WY019007
  • User Pedon ID: S1967WY019007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1967WY019007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3131
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38260
  • 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: 43.8438873
  • Std. Longitude: -107.1050034
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 45N
  • Range: 85W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4, NW1/4
  • Location Description: Proceed south on main gravel road which approaches US Highway 16 2.3 miles west of Caribou Lodge for 19.8 miles to junction. Proceed on right fork fro another 7.7 miles to stone monument on left or east side of road. Site is 200 yards east of stone monument.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY019—Johnson

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. J. Fowkes
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sawcreek
  • PSC - 25 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/1967 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • 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

    CADU6

    ELMA7

    KOMA

    NAVI4

    Carex duriuscula

    Elymus macrourus

    Koeleria macrantha

    Nassella viridula

    needleleaf sedge

    tufted wheatgrass

    prairie Junegrass

    green needlegrass

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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

    6

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    2499

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    90

    508

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    4.4

    11.7

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24469
    B1—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sandy loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; clay bridges between sand grains and 10 percent coats; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24470. Few thin patchy glossy coatings and some bridging of clay between sand grains.; patchy - phpvsfiid 188128; patchy - phpvsfiid 188128
    B21—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; coats on faces of peds and clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24471. Thin nearly continuous glossy coatings on faces of peds and bridging of clay between sand grains.; continuous - phpvsfiid 188130; continuous - phpvsfiid 188130
    B22—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), reddish brown (5YR 5/3), dry; sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; coats on faces of peds and clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 40A24472. Thin nearly continuous glossy coatings on faces of peds and bridging of clay between sand grains.; continuous - phpvsfiid 188132; continuous - phpvsfiid 188132
    R1—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), dry; indurated; sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A24473. Partially disintegrated and indurated fine grained noncalcareous reddish brown sandstone.
    R2—86 to 91 centimeters (33.9 to 35.8 inches); hard; sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A24474. Hard reddish brown fine grained noncalcareous sandstone.