IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lucky Star
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968UT005002
  • User Pedon ID: S1968UT005002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1968UT005002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68C0124
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43579
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 41.5057640
  • Std. Longitude: -111.6224594
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 1,200 feet east and 1,500 feet south of the north 1/4 corner
  • Location Description: 7 miles south and 2 3/4 miles west of the Hardware Ranch.
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT005—Cache
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT603—Cache Valley Area, Parts of Cache and Box Elder Counties, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. B. Campbell
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lucky Star
  • Classificaton Date - 10/8/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/8/1968 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MERTE

    PRVI

    RUOC2

    Mertensia

    Prunus virginiana

    Rudbeckia occidentalis

    bluebells

    chokecherry

    western coneflower

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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

    35

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    2164

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    0

    762

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    3.3

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    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. matted decaying leaves, twigs, and grasses (not sampled).
    A11—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00934
    A12—13 to 41 centimeters (5.1 to 16.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 roots; 10 percent by volume 2-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00935
    A21—41 to 79 centimeters (16.1 to 31.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), pink (7.5YR 7/4), dry; Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 roots; 40 percent by volume 2-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00936
    A22—79 to 112 centimeters (31.1 to 44.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), pink (7.5YR 7/4), dry; Error; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 60 percent by volume 2-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 68C00937
    A2&B2t—112 to 143 centimeters (44.1 to 56.3 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), pink (5YR 7/4), dry; Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 80 percent by volume 2-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.1, bromthymol blue; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 68C00938
    B2t&A2—143 to 173 centimeters (56.3 to 68.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), pink (5YR 7/4), dry; Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 80 percent by volume 2-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.1, bromthymol blue; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 68C00939. The B2t portion of this horizon occupies 70 percent of the volume and the A2, 30 percent, the B2t portion is the same as the B2t portion of the 67- to 87-inch horizon described below; the A2 portion is the same as the A2 portion of the 43- to 55-inch horizon described above.
    B2t—173 to 224 centimeters (68.1 to 88.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8), red (2.5YR 5/6), dry; Error; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 30 percent clay films; 80 percent by volume 2-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 68C00940. continuous - phpvsfiid 187278; continuous - phpvsfiid 187278