IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sandbranch

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S2006WY041015

User Pedon ID: S2006WY041015

Vegetation Plot ID: S2006WY041015

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - SSL

Lab Pedon # - 07N0338

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18785

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: 41.2430573

Std. Longitude: -110.2619476

Datum: WGS84

Township: 15N

Range: 114W

Section: 33

PLSS Details: NE 1/4 of NE 1/4

Location Description: about 800 ft west and 300 ft south of the northeast corner of

Map Unit: 133—Clowers-Kandaly, loamy substratum-Sandbranch complex, 0 to 30 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: MR and Staff

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Ustic Natrargids

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: TUD pedon

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Pedon #: 15

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Sandbranch

Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Ustic Natrargids

PSC - 10 to 38 cm.

Classificaton Date - 8/31/2006

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: EC

SITE

Parent Material: alluvium derived from calcareous shale

Landscape: basin

Landform: alluvial flat

Geomorphic Component Flats: talf

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: linear

Slope Shape Down: linear

Drainage Pattern: parallel

Runoff: very low

Drainage Class: well

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Geology: Bridger Formation formation.

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 8/31/2006 (actual site observation date)

Air Photo ID: 12533-97

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

Vegetation Plot Plants
Plant Symbol	Scientific Name	National Vernacular Name	Plant Type Group	Canopy Cover %	Vegetation Stata Level
ARTRW8 SARCO	Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis Sarcobatus	Wyoming big sagebrush greasewood	— —	— —	— —

Pedon Restrictions
Kind	Hardness	Restriction Depth L-H	Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
		cm
natric	noncoherent	10 - 38	—

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
ochric epipedon natric horizon	0—10 10—38	—- —-

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
0.5	—	—	2005	—	45	229	—	75	5	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

E—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 15.0 fine vesicular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01767; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry

Btkn—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; loam; 25 percent clay; strong medium columnar parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; moderately hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine vesicular pores; 25 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; carbonate, finely disseminated and salt, finely disseminated; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01768; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364198; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364198

Bkn—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3), olive (5Y 5/3), moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; moderately hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and salt, finely disseminated; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01769; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry

C—71 to 203 centimeters (28.0 to 79.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; stratified stratified loamy sand to sandy loam to loam to silt loam to silty clay loam; 20 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; carbonate, finely disseminated and salt, finely disseminated and 5 percent fine distinct threadlike very weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, pH meter. Lab sample # 07N01770; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry