IDENTIFIERS

  • User Site ID: S10WY035001
  • User Pedon ID: S2010WY035001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1330
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55312
  • Print Date: 1/10/2025

    • 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: 42.7122500
  • Std. Longitude: -109.4109167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 105W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: Located approximately 1,180 ft. north and 2010 ft. west of the SE corner.
  • Location Description: Located approximately 16 miles ESE of Boulder, WY.
  • Map Unit: 4641—Mountain Front Sideslopes, Subalpine Fir-Aspen Complex
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY035—Sublette
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY662—Bridger National Forest, Wyoming, Eastern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42109-F4—Pocket Creek Lake, Wyoming

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dan Mattke & Kevin Godsey
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from granite and gneiss
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: glacial drainage channel
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/11/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    albic horizon

    redox concentrations

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    reduced matrix

    5—25

    25—50

    25—200

    50—180

    50—200

    100—200

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    3

    —

    —

    2881

    —

    290

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    1133

    Pocket Creek

    SNOTEL
    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); mucky peat; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    A—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face, dry; loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 8.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; ; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N06389; observed in trench
    E—25 to 50 centimeters (9.8 to 19.7 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face, dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 7 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent fine distinct irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06390; observed in trench
    Bt1—50 to 100 centimeters (19.7 to 39.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face, dry; gravelly sandy loam; 11 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine roots throughout and ; 7.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent fine distinct irregular dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) masses of reduced iron throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06391; observed in trench
    Bt2—100 to 180 centimeters (39.4 to 70.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; sandy loam; 13 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 fine roots throughout; 7.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent fine distinct irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06392; observed in trench
    C—180 to 200 centimeters (70.9 to 78.7 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face, dry; sandy loam; 9 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine tubular and pores; 20 percent fine distinct irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06393; observed in trench