IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rickman
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006WY041002
  • User Pedon ID: S2006WY041002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0443
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18233
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 41.0910263
  • Std. Longitude: -110.7601395
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 118W
  • Section: 19
  • Location Description: about 19 miles south and 8 miles east of Evanston, about 900 ft. west and 2200 ft. south of the Northeast corner of
  • Map Unit: 207—Feltner-Rickman-Sinkson complex, moist, 6 to 40 percent slopes
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY041—Uinta
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-PIN—Pinedale, Wyoming
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY041—Uinta County Area, Wyoming

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Staff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aridic Calciustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rickman
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aridic Calciustepts
  • PSC - 10 to 32 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium over residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: noncoherent shale, calcareous at 32cm
  • Geology: Wasatch formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 12552-124
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, densic

    noncoherent

    32 - 80

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—5

    5—18

    18—32

    32—80

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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

    15

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    2382

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    180

    18

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    75

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    Cd2—; reddish brown (5YR 5/4) broken face, light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) broken face, moist; bedrock; Ksat of 0.7 um/s; slow permeability; fragments.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 8.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine moderate-continuity vesicular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 1 percent by volume nonflat angular very weakly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N01732; observed in pit, large or quarry
    A2—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 7.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 1 percent by volume nonflat angular very weakly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N01733; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw—13 to 46 centimeters (5.1 to 18.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; loam; 22 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 7.0 fine roots throughout; 12.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01734; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bk1—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; clay loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 6.0 fine roots throughout; 8.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and 10 percent fine distinct threadlike very weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01735; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bk2—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, moist; loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and 15 percent fine distinct threadlike very weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01736; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Cd1—81 to 127 centimeters (31.9 to 50.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face, moist; bedrock; Ksat of 0.7 um/s; slow permeability; fragments. Lab sample # 06N01737; observed in pit, large or quarry