IDENTIFIERS

  • User Site ID: S10WY035002
  • User Pedon ID: S2010WY035002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1331
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55313
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 42.5800833
  • Std. Longitude: -109.0885278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30N
  • Range: 103W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: Located approximately 530 ft. north and 520 ft. east of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Located approximately 35 miles ESE of Boulder, WY.
  • Map Unit: 7621—Southeast Mountains Sideslopes, Big Sagebrush-Douglas fir-Rock Outcrop Complex
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY035—Sublette
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY662—Bridger National Forest, Wyoming, Eastern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42109-E1—Sweetwater Needles, 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: residuum weathered from granite
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated granite at 100cm
  • Geology: Precambrian Granite formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/10/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    67 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    67—

    —18—

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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

    8

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    2715

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    200

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    1134

    Larsen Creek

    SNOTEL
    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, dry; coarse sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 15.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-5-20 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N06394; observed in trench
    Bw—9 to 18 centimeters (3.5 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; coarse sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-5-20 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N06395; observed in trench
    BC—18 to 40 centimeters (7.1 to 15.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) crushed, dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 9 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine vesicular pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-5-20 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N06396; observed in trench
    C1—40 to 48 centimeters (15.7 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dry; gravelly coarse sand; 4 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 10.0 fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 250-400-600 millimeter granite fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-5-20 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N06397; observed in trench
    C2—48 to 67 centimeters (18.9 to 26.4 inches); 50 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) rubbed and 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) rubbed, 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed and 50 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) rubbed, dry; very gravelly coarse sand; 4 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 medium roots throughout; 10.0 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 250-400-600 millimeter granite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter granite fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-5-20 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N06398; observed in trench
    R—67 to 100 centimeters (26.4 to 39.4 inches); bedrock; nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments.; observed in trench