IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vanet
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968UT017004
  • User Pedon ID: S1968UT017004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1968UT017004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68C0046
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42971
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 37.8652763
  • Std. Longitude: -112.2450027
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34S
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Paunsaugunt Soil Survey Area, Utah.
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT017—Garfield
  • MLRA: 47—Wasatch and Uinta Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT636—Panguitch Area, Parts of Garfield, Iron, Kane, and Piute Counties, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Mitchell
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vanet
  • PSC - 25 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: limestone and shale
  • Landform: mesa
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/12/1968 (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

    ACHY

    ARCTO3

    JUSC2

    PICEA

    PIFL2

    PURSH

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Arctostaphylos

    Juniperus scopulorum

    Picea

    Pinus flexilis

    Purshia

    Indian ricegrass

    manzanita

    Rocky Mountain juniper

    spruce

    limber pine

    bitterbrush

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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

    25

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    2499

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    270

    508

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    9.4

    16.7

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    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; gravelly loam; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C00267
    B2—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), reddish brown (5YR 5/3), dry; gravelly clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine interstitial and 0.5 tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C00268
    C1ca—18 to 39 centimeters (7.1 to 15.4 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), dry; gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; medium and coarse roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine to coarse interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # 68C00269
    C2ca—39 to 51 centimeters (15.4 to 20.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and yellowish red (5YR 5/8), pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), dry; gravelly loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; medium and coarse roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine to coarse interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00270
    IIC3ca—51 to 77 centimeters (20.1 to 30.3 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and pink (7.5YR 7/4), light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) and pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), dry; very cobbly silt loam; massive; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 68C00271
    R—77 to 94 centimeters (30.3 to 37.0 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), reddish yellow (5YR 7/8), dry; very cobbly loam; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm*, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 70 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 68C00272