IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Boyle
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001WY009002
  • User Pedon ID: S2001WY009002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0941
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13563
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 42.6655006
  • Std. Longitude: -105.9383621
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31N
  • Range: 76W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: Southeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4
  • Location Description: Protsmans Knob
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY009—Converse
  • MLRA: 58B—Northern Rolling High Plains, Southern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MRL, TAL, GFR, CAP, NC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid, shallow Aridic Argiustolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Boyle
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid, shallow Aridic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 13 to 35 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/17/2001
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: granite
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: granite at 35cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/17/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 421-60
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—13

    13—35

    35—

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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

    2

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    2128

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    23

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 8.0 fine low-continuity vesicular pores; 4 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N04961; dry when described;
    Bt—13 to 35 centimeters (5.1 to 13.8 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly clay loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 6.0 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 40 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N04962; dry when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 207969; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 207969
    Cr—35 to 60 centimeters (13.8 to 23.6 inches); gravelly sand; fragments.