IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fonce
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006WY041018
  • User Pedon ID: S2006WY041018
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006WY041018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0341
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18788
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 41.2314987
  • Std. Longitude: -110.0601959
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 112W
  • Section: 32
  • Location Description: about 300 ft. north and 500 ft. west of the southeast corner of
  • Map Unit: 150—Brownsto-Fonce complex, 0 to 6 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: DM & CAP
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Ustic Calciargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 18
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fonce
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Ustic Calciargids
  • PSC - 8 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/6/2006
  • 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 and/or colluvium derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: strath terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium & Colluvium member of the Bridger Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 3.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter quartzite, 1.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 75- to 250-millimeter quartzite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/6/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 12529-219
  • 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 % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Btk

    Bk1

    Bk2

    23

    48

    89

    48

    89

    122

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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

    Btk

    Bk1

    Bk2

    23

    48

    89

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    122

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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 %

    Btk

    Bk1

    Bk2

    23

    48

    89

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    122

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    ec meter, 1:1 water

    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

    ACHY

    ARTRW8

    GRSP

    NAVI4

    POSE

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Grayia spinosa

    Nassella viridula

    Poa secunda

    Indian ricegrass

    Wyoming big sagebrush

    spiny hopsage

    green needlegrass

    Sandberg bluegrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—8

    8—48

    48—203

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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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    305

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 15.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; loam; 23 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments and 10 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01775; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364206; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364207; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364206; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364207
    Btk—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; moderately hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments and 10 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; carbonate, finely disseminated; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01776; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364208; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364209; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364208; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364209
    Bk1—48 to 89 centimeters (18.9 to 35.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; gravelly loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments; carbonate, finely disseminated; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01777; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364210; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364210
    Bk2—89 to 122 centimeters (35.0 to 48.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments; carbonate, finely disseminated and 2 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate concretions throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364211; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364211
    Bk3—122 to 203 centimeters (48.0 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly loamy sand; 5 percent clay; structureless massive; moderately hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments; carbonate, finely disseminated and 5 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate concretions throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-400-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 22 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 45 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364212; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364212