IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sandbranch
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006WY041014
  • User Pedon ID: S2006WY041014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006WY041014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0337
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18784
  • 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: 41.3253326
  • Std. Longitude: -110.1763306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 113W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 of SE 1/4 of NW 1/4
  • Location Description: 2100 ft S and 1500 ft E of the NW corner of sec. 32, T. 16 N., R. 113 W.
  • Map Unit: 135—Sandbranch-Quealman complex, 0 to 8 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: JR and staff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Ustic Natrargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sandbranch
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Ustic Natrargids
  • PSC - 10 to 31 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


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from calcareous shale
  • Landscape: basin floor
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: parallel
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding for extremely brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Bridger Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/30/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: Turtle Hi
  • 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 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 % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Bkny1

    Bkny2

    30

    46

    46

    71

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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

    Bkny1

    Bkny2

    30

    46

    46

    71

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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 %

    Bkny1

    Bkny2

    30

    46

    46

    71

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    ec meter, 1:1 water

    ec meter, 1:1 water

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

    ARTRW8

    CHNA2

    ELEL5

    OPUNT

    POSE

    SALVI

    SARCO

    STIPA

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Chrysothamnus nauseosus

    Elymus elymoides

    Opuntia

    Poa secunda

    Salvia

    Sarcobatus

    Stipa

    Wyoming big sagebrush

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    squirreltail

    pricklypear

    Sandberg bluegrass

    sage

    greasewood

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

    natric

    noncoherent

    10 - 30

    10 - 20 - 30
    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    natric horizon

    0—10

    10—30

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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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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate fine platy parts to weak fine granular structure; loose, loose, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 14.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Btkn—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; 25 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 30 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate, finely disseminated and 1 percent fine distinct spherical salt masses throughout and 1 percent fine distinct spherical carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01763; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364196; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364196
    Bkny1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 12.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate, finely disseminated and 5 percent fine prominent threadlike white (10YR 8/1), dry, gypsum masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01764; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bkny2—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine irregular pores; white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate, finely disseminated and 2 percent medium prominent dendritic very weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), dry, gypsum masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01765; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bkny3—71 to 107 centimeters (28.0 to 42.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 16.0 very fine irregular pores; white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate, finely disseminated and 10 percent medium prominent dendritic very weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), dry, gypsum masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01766; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    C—107 to 355 centimeters (42.1 to 139.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), olive gray (5Y 4/2), moist; stratified stratified loamy sand to sandy loam to gravelly loamy sand to gravelly sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 15 percent by volume nonflat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.5, pH meter.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry