IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cave
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970UT053015
  • User Pedon ID: S1970UT053015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1970UT053015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 70C0060
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43841
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 37.3022232
  • Std. Longitude: -113.9524994
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40S
  • Range: 19W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: Near the South 1/4 corner
  • Location Description: Motoqua - Jim Bowns study area.
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT053—Washington
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT641—Washington County Area, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Vear L. Mortensen
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cave
  • PSC - 25 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/17/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/17/1970 (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

    CORA

    Bromus tectorum

    Coleogyne ramosissima

    cheatgrass

    blackbrush

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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

    15

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    1219

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    279

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    16.7

    28.9

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak thin platy parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 70C00363
    C1—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium angular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 70C00364
    C2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine and 0.5 medium pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 70C00365
    C3—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine and fine and 0.5 medium pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 70C00366
    C4cam—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); indurated by carbonates; fragments. Lab sample # 70C00367. indurated carbonate cemented hardpan. (Somewhat fractured.)
    C5cam—64 to 69 centimeters (25.2 to 27.2 inches); indurated by carbonates; fragments. Lab sample # 70C00368. indurated carbonate cemented hardpan.