IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Syrett
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968UT017006
  • User Pedon ID: S1968UT017006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68C0044
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42969
  • Print Date: 4/21/2025

    • 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: 37.6447220
  • Std. Longitude: -112.1666641
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36S
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet N and 500 feet W of the S 1/4 corner
  • 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 #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Syrett
  • PSC - 25 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: limestone
  • 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
    • 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

    5

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    2469

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    0

    457

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    —

    —

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    8.3

    15

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    O1&O2—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); fragments. intermittent pine litter.
    A11—1 to 4 centimeters (0.4 to 1.6 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C00255
    A12—4 to 16 centimeters (1.6 to 6.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; medium and coarse roots and 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine interstitial and 0.5 tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, bromthymol blue; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00256
    A13—16 to 44 centimeters (6.3 to 17.3 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; cobbly loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; medium and coarse roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine to coarse interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00257
    IIC—44 to 70 centimeters (17.3 to 27.6 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) and red (2.5YR 5/6), pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) and light red (2.5YR 6/6), dry; very gravelly silt loam; massive; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium and coarse interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00258
    R—70 to 75 centimeters (27.6 to 29.5 inches); limestone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 68C00259. limestone bedrock.