IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pahreah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968UT025003
  • User Pedon ID: S1968UT025003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1968UT025003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68C0037
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42962
  • 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: 37.3766670
  • Std. Longitude: -112.2902756
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 39S
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet W of the center
  • Location Description: northwest of Cougar Hollow deer exclosure.
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT025—Kane
  • 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 #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pahreah
  • PSC - 25 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: mesa
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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

    KOMA

    OXYTR

    VICIA

    Koeleria macrantha

    Oxytropis

    Vicia

    prairie Junegrass

    locoweed

    vetch

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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

    38

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    2621

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    90

    635

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    6.7

    15

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    O1&O2—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C00201. conifer duff and needles.
    A1—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; gravelly loam; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C00202
    B2—8 to 26 centimeters (3.1 to 10.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00203
    C1ca—26 to 41 centimeters (10.2 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; gravelly loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots and coarse roots; 3.0 fine to coarse interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00204
    C2ca—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; gravelly loam; massive; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots and coarse roots; 3.0 fine to coarse interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00205
    R—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 7/6) and pink (5YR 7/4), pink (5YR 8/4) and pink (5YR 8/3), dry; silt loam; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm*, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine to medium roots; 90 percent by volume 2-48-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 68C00206