IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rock River
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998WY013010
  • User Pedon ID: S1998WY013010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - 010
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0457
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10727
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 43.1736111
  • Std. Longitude: -109.0353889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: SE1/4 Sec. 6, T. 2 N, R. 2 W.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY013—Fremont
  • MLRA: 32—Northern Intermountain Desertic Basins

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Gustafson Jennifer Young
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rock River
  • PSC - 5 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/1998
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/10/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 273-150
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind and water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—5

    5—51

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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

    4

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    1920

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    50

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; sandy loam; weak fine platy parts to weak fine granular structure; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bt1—5 to 33 centimeters (2.0 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; sandy clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt2—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; sandy clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary.
    Btk—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); weak red (2.5YR 5/2) rubbed, pale red (2.5YR 6/2) broken face, dry; sandy loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bk—84 to 109 centimeters (33.1 to 42.9 inches); weak red (2.5YR 5/2) rubbed, light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/3) broken face, dry; sandy loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.
    C1—109 to 135 centimeters (42.9 to 53.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) rubbed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, dry; sandy loam; single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary.
    C2—135 to 163 centimeters (53.1 to 64.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) rubbed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, dry; loamy sand; single grain; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic-sedimentary fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified.