IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Faim
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012UT039003
  • User Pedon ID: S2012UT039003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N57554
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72809
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 39.3201722
  • Std. Longitude: -111.4882111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT039—Sanpete
  • MLRA: 47—Wasatch and Uinta Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT645—Manti-Lasal National Forest, Manti Division - Parts of Sanpete and Emery Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39111-C4—Danish Knoll, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic Pachic Argicryolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from limestone
  • Bedrock: limestone, sandstone, and shale; limestone, unspecified
  • Geology: North Horn Formation formation. ; Flagstaff Limestone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/18/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—71

    31—128

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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

    1

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    2690

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    SNOTEL
    A—0 to 31 centimeters (0.0 to 12.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; clay loam; 36 percent clay; strong medium granular structure; extremely firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6.
    ABt—31 to 71 centimeters (12.2 to 28.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; clay; 60 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; slightly rigid, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 80 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0.
    Btk—71 to 128 centimeters (28.0 to 50.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 40 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4.
    Bk—128 to 174 centimeters (50.4 to 68.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2.