IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Begay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05UT019015
  • User Pedon ID: S2005UT019015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 05UT019015
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - TUT687012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0145
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17934
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 38.8154030
  • Std. Longitude: -109.6835098
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 116—Begay fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, overwash
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT687—Arches National Park, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Scott
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Ustic Haplocambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Begay
  • Classificaton Date - 1/20/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Begay
  • Classificaton Date - 11/7/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands over alluvium derived from sandstone
  • Landform: plateau, valley
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Geology: Quaternary Alluvium And Older Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter 2.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R035XY215UT Semidesert Sandy Loam (4-Wing Saltbush)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/7/2005 (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

    SATR12

    SPHAE

    Bromus tectorum

    Salsola tragus

    Sphaeralcea

    cheatgrass

    prickly Russian thistle

    globemallow

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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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    1527

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    224

    254

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    185

    13

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist; loamy fine sand; 5 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00456
    Bw1—5 to 22 centimeters (2.0 to 8.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; loamy sand; 3 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00458
    Bw2—22 to 51 centimeters (8.7 to 20.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy loam; 7 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate thick platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; clear smooth boundary.
    Bk1—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist; sandy loam; 10 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; clear smooth boundary.
    Bk2—71 to 166 centimeters (28.0 to 65.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist; sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent medium irregular carbonate masses in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; clear smooth boundary.
    Bk3—166 to 200 centimeters (65.4 to 78.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist; sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent medium irregular carbonate masses in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; clear smooth boundary.