IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bond
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969UT053008
  • User Pedon ID: S1969UT053008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1969UT053008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 69C0184
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43757
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 37.2594452
  • Std. Longitude: -113.2177811
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40S
  • Range: 12W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: about 300 feet north and 500 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: one-fourth mile north of north end of Hurricane Mesa facility track.
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT053—Washington
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT641—Washington County Area, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Vear Mortensen
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bond
  • PSC - 15 to 37 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/1969
  • 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: 10/23/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    BRTE

    JUNIP

    OPUNT

    Bromus tectorum

    Juniperus

    Opuntia

    cheatgrass

    juniper

    pricklypear

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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

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    1521

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    330

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    13.9

    23.3

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; coarse sandy loam; weak medium platy parts to weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00943
    B1t—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dry; sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00944
    B2t—15 to 37 centimeters (5.9 to 14.6 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dry; clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films between sand grains; 25 percent by volume 2-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00945
    R—37 to 42 centimeters (14.6 to 16.5 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 69C00946. conglomerate bedrock.