IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Faim
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012UT039005
  • User Pedon ID: S2012UT039005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N57556
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71299
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.2380278
  • Std. Longitude: -111.5198778
  • 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-B5—Black Mountain, 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: 7/20/2012 (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—64

    11—103

    —64—

    —92—
    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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    2676.2

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    1226

    Thistle Flat

    SNOTEL
    A—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; clay; 40 percent clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual smooth boundary.
    ABt1—11 to 40 centimeters (4.3 to 15.7 inches); dark reddish gray (7.5R 3/1), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; clay; 55 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 70 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual smooth boundary.
    ABt2—40 to 64 centimeters (15.7 to 25.2 inches); very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; clay; 60 percent clay; strong coarse angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 80 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; gradual smooth boundary.
    Btk—64 to 103 centimeters (25.2 to 40.6 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) clay; 55 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 70 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bk—103 to 140 centimeters (40.6 to 55.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent very fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2.