IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SINKSON
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005-WY-041-002
  • User Pedon ID: S2005WY041002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005-WY-041-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0117
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16599
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 41.1201096
  • Std. Longitude: -110.9902191
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 120W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet West and 2800 feet North of the SE corner
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY041—Uinta
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41110-A8—Myers Reservoir, Wyoming

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: CP, BL, JZ
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, frigid Ustic Haplocambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SINKSON
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, frigid Ustic Haplocambids
  • Classificaton Date - 10/19/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Bedrock: sandstone and shale
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/19/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    AGCR

    ARTRW8

    CHVIS5

    Agropyron cristatum

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus ssp. viscidiflorus var. stenophyllus

    crested wheatgrass

    Wyoming big sagebrush

    yellow rabbitbrush

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—10

    10—66

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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

    6

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    0

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    135

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    75

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N00550; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw1—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; 12.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00551; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw2—33 to 66 centimeters (13.0 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 14.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00552; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bk1—66 to 152 centimeters (26.0 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine vesicular pores; 15 percent fine light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N00553; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bk2—152 to 229 centimeters (59.8 to 90.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 05N00554; dry when described; observed in auger, bucket