IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Piezon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006WY041012
  • User Pedon ID: S2006WY041012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006WY041012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0335
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18782
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 41.2350006
  • Std. Longitude: -110.1610031
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 113W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Uinta County, Wyoming; about 17 miles southwest of the Church Butte Exit 48 on I80; about 525 feet east and 2,040 feet north of the southwest corner of
  • Map Unit: 127—Piezon-Lilsnake complex, 1 to 3 percent slopes—draft
  • 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: PDM and staff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, carbonatic, superactive, calcareous, frigid Ustic Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Piezon
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, carbonatic, superactive, calcareous, frigid Ustic Haplocalcids
  • PSC - 25 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/30/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: pH and EC


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium over residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: structural bench
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered limestone, cherty at 91cm with <10
  • Geology: Bridger Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2- to 75-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/30/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: ReedRsvNE
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Bk1

    Bk2

    Bk3

    30

    46

    66

    46

    66

    91

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Bk1

    Bk2

    Bk3

    30

    46

    66

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    66

    91

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Bk1

    Bk2

    Bk3

    30

    46

    66

    46

    66

    91

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    ec meter, 1:1 water

    ec meter, 1:1 water

    ec meter, 1:1 water

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    18

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACHY

    AGCR

    ARTRW8

    ATCO

    ELEL5

    GRSP

    PASM

    POSE

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Agropyron cristatum

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Elymus elymoides

    Grayia spinosa

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Poa secunda

    Indian ricegrass

    crested wheatgrass

    Wyoming big sagebrush

    shadscale saltbush

    squirreltail

    spiny hopsage

    western wheatgrass

    Sandberg bluegrass

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
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    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—10

    10—30

    30—91

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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

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    229

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    75

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; moderate medium platy parts to weak fine granular structure; loose, loose, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 16.0 very fine vesicular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01756; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and 5 percent fine distinct cylindrical strongly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, carbonate concretions throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01757; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), moist; silt loam; strong medium angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fine carbonate, finely disseminated; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01758; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk3—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), moist; silt loam; weak medium angular blocky, and weak fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01759; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    R—91 to 203 centimeters (35.8 to 79.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.; dry when described; observed in pit, small