IDENTIFIERS

User Site ID: S12WY630002

User Pedon ID: S2012WY007002

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - KSSL

Lab Pedon # - 13N97103

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72835

Print Date: 11/21/2024

LOCATION

Location Description: Located at the Medicine Bow snotel site.

State: Wyoming

County: WY007—Carbon

MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-PIN—Pinedale, Wyoming

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY632—Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming, Central and Western Parts

PEDON

Describers Name: Cameron Clark

Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name

Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: colluvium over residuum weathered from mica schist

Hill Slope Profile: backslope

Slope Shape Across: convex

Slope Shape Down: convex

Drainage Class: well

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Bedrock: schist, mica at 88cm

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 8/14/2012 (actual site observation date)

Data Collector: Cameron Clark

Surface Cover Properties:

Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover

Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers

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, paralithic	—	88 - 100	—

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
ochric epipedon argillic horizon paralithic contact	7—14 34—66 88—100	—- —- —-

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
18	—	—	—	—	100	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1196	Med Bow	SNOTEL

O—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); 18 percent clay; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 pores; 2 percent by volume unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N11819; observed in pit, small

A—7 to 14 centimeters (2.8 to 5.5 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/2) broken face, dry; loam; moderate medium platy structure; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1.0 pores; 2 percent by volume unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N11820; observed in pit, small

E—14 to 34 centimeters (5.5 to 13.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, brown (7.5YR 5/3) broken face, dry; loam; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 2.0 medium roots throughout; 1.0 pores; 5 percent by volume unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N11821; observed in pit, small

Bt—34 to 66 centimeters (13.4 to 26.0 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) broken face, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, dry; gravelly clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 1.0 medium roots throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded granite fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N11822; observed in pit, small

C—66 to 88 centimeters (26.0 to 34.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dry; very gravelly loam; 26 percent clay; structureless massive; 60 percent by volume nonflat subrounded schist, mica fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.2; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 13N11823; observed in pit, small

Cr—88 to 100 centimeters (34.6 to 39.4 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small