IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kandaly
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006WY041016
  • User Pedon ID: S2006WY041016
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006WY041016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0339
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18786
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 41.3390541
  • Std. Longitude: -110.1549988
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 113W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 of E 1/2 of NW Quarter
  • Location Description: 2075 ft E and 2430 ft S from NW corner of sec. 28, T. 16 N., R. 113 W.
  • Map Unit: 125—Sandbranch-Kandaly complex, 0 to 20 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 CP
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, frigid Ustic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kandaly
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, frigid Ustic Torripsamments
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/6/2006
  • 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 and pH


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands derived from calcareous sandstone
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: dune
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Dunes member of the Bridger Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/6/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: TrtleHill
  • Microrelief Kind: microhigh
  • 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

    ACHY

    ARTRW8

    CHNA2

    GRSP

    HECOC8

    PSSP6

    SARCO

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Chrysothamnus nauseosus

    Grayia spinosa

    Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    Sarcobatus

    Indian ricegrass

    Wyoming big sagebrush

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    spiny hopsage

    needle and thread

    bluebunch wheatgrass

    greasewood

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—10

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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

    18

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    2012

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    45

    229

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    75

    5

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loamy fine sand; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 10.0 fine interstitial pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01771; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—10 to 114 centimeters (3.9 to 44.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; loamy fine sand; 6 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky, and weak fine angular blocky structure; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium interstitial and 5.0 fine interstitial pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01772; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—114 to 203 centimeters (44.9 to 79.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; loamy fine sand; 6 percent clay; structureless massive; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter.; dry when described; observed in pit, small