IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rock River
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004WY635118
  • User Pedon ID: S2004WY035003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2004WY635118
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - NFBDV14
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0461
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18282
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 42.3941650
  • Std. Longitude: -109.5250015
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 5203—Golphco-Chickenhill-Bronec complex, 1 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY035—Sublette
  • MLRA: 34A—Cool Central Desertic Basins and Plateaus
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-PIN—Pinedale, Wyoming
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY635—Sublette County Area, Wyoming
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42109-D5—Bull Draw, Wyoming

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nathan J. Fikkert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Ustic Calciargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rock River
  • PSC - 7 to 57 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/6/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: pediment
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R034AY222WY Loamy Foothills and Basins West (Ly)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/6/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: II-4.75
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • 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

    ACHY

    ARTRW8

    CHVI8

    KRLA2

    POA

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

    Krascheninnikovia lanata

    Poa

    Indian ricegrass

    Wyoming big sagebrush

    yellow rabbitbrush

    winterfat

    bluegrass

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    secondary carbonates

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—17

    2—150

    17—62

    17—150

    —17—

    —148—

    —45—

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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

    1

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    2144

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    250

    279

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    45

    2.2

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    A—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to fine single grain; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified. Lab sample # 05N02643; observed in pit, small
    Btk1—2 to 17 centimeters (0.8 to 6.7 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; loam; 19 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 5 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 10 percent distinct carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified. Lab sample # 05N02644; observed in pit, small
    Btk2—17 to 62 centimeters (6.7 to 24.4 inches);, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face, moist; loam; 21 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 5 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified. Lab sample # 05N02645; observed in pit, small
    Bk—62 to 150 centimeters (24.4 to 59.1 inches);, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) broken face, moist; loam; 24 percent clay; strong coarse angular blocky parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; 100 percent carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, unspecified. Lab sample # 05N02646; observed in pit, small