IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Monbutte
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006WY041003
  • User Pedon ID: S2006WY041003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0444
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18234
  • Print Date: 4/30/2025

    • 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: 41.2798042
  • Std. Longitude: -110.3098907
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 114W
  • Section: 18
  • Location Description: about 2200 ft. east and 2500 ft. south of the Northwest corner of
  • Map Unit: 10—Lassel-Armitage, wet complex, 0 to 2 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 Ustic Natrargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Monbutte
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Ustic Natrargids
  • PSC - 5 to 35 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/4/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium over outwash derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding for extremely brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium And Colluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/4/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 12533-223
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    abrupt textural change

    noncoherent

    52 - 65

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

    ochric epipedon

    natric horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—5

    5—35

    35—52

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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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    2047

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    90

    8

    —

    75

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    E—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 14.11 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 12.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; salt, finely disseminated and carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N01738; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Btkn1—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, moist; clay loam; 35 percent clay; strong medium columnar parts to moderate medium angular blocky, and strong medium columnar parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 4.23 um/s; moderately slow permeability; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 8.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 15 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; salt, finely disseminated and carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01739; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 312087; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 312087
    Btkn2—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 4.23 um/s; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 8.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 15 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; salt, finely disseminated and carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01740; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 312088; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 312088
    Btkn3—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 4.23 um/s; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds and 10 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; salt, finely disseminated and carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 312089; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 312090; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 312089; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 312090
    Btkn4—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 4.23 um/s; moderately slow permeability; 4.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 15 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; salt, finely disseminated and carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01741; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 312091; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 312091
    2Bk1—89 to 132 centimeters (35.0 to 52.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, moist; very cobbly clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 4.23 um/s; moderate permeability; 5.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and salt, finely disseminated and 15 percent fine distinct threadlike very weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 250-400-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 75-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01742; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Bk2—132 to 165 centimeters (52.0 to 65.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; extremely cobbly loamy sand; 7 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.23 um/s; very rapid permeability; 10 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 250-400-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 75-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter.; observed in pit, large or quarry. patchy - phpvsfiid 312092; patchy - phpvsfiid 312092