IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Quealman
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006WY041019
  • User Pedon ID: S2006WY041019
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006WY041019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0342
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18789
  • 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: 41.3158073
  • Std. Longitude: -110.1711960
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 113W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of NE 1/4
  • Location Description: 400 ft S and 1950 ft W of the NE corner of sec. 5, T 15 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: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, frigid Ustic Torrifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 19
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Quealman
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, frigid Ustic Torrifluvents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/7/2006
  • 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 sandstone and siltstone
  • Landscape: basin floor
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: parallel
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for very brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Bridger formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/7/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: TurtHilNE
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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 % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Bk2

    C

    64

    155

    112

    203

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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

    Bk2

    C

    64

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    112

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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 %

    Bk2

    C

    64

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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

    ACHY

    ARTRT

    ARTRW8

    ATCO

    CHNA2

    OPUNT

    PASM

    POSE

    SARCO

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Chrysothamnus nauseosus

    Opuntia

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Poa secunda

    Sarcobatus

    Indian ricegrass

    basin big sagebrush

    Wyoming big sagebrush

    shadscale saltbush

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    pricklypear

    western wheatgrass

    Sandberg bluegrass

    greasewood

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—8

    8—28

    —8—

    —20—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    9/7/2006

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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 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 7.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine vesicular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; loam; 20 percent clay;—Error in Exists On—structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01778; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bk1—28 to 64 centimeters (11.0 to 25.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), olive gray (5Y 4/2), moist; stratified stratified sandy loam to very fine sandy loam to loam to silt loam; 18 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; moderately hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; 8.0 fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and 5 percent fine distinct irregular light gray (10YR 7/2) carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01779; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bk2—64 to 112 centimeters (25.2 to 44.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), olive (5Y 4/3), moist; stratified stratified sandy loam to very fine sandy loam to loam to silt loam; 15 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; moderately hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 8.0 fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and 5 percent fine distinct irregular light gray (10YR 7/2) carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01780; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bk3—112 to 155 centimeters (44.1 to 61.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), olive (5Y 4/3), moist; loamy sand; 5 percent clay; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 6.0 fine vesicular pores; 5 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments; carbonate, finely disseminated; 5 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364213; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364213
    C—155 to 203 centimeters (61.0 to 79.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), olive (5Y 4/3), moist; gravelly loamy coarse sand; 3 percent clay; structureless massive; very hard, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; carbonate, finely disseminated; 30 percent by volume flat angular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry