IDENTIFIERS

  • User Site ID: S13WY039001
  • User Pedon ID: S2013WY039001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N96802
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72923
  • 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: 43.7490556
  • Std. Longitude: -110.0577250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 44N
  • Range: 110W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: located approximately 1740 ft. west and 2360 ft. south of the NE corner.
  • Location Description: located at the Togwotee Pass snotel site approximately 30 ft NE of the main instrument station.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY039—Teton
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY656—Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43110-F1—Lava Mountain, Wyoming

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dan Mattke
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: technical soil services
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/9/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Dan Mattke
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—30

    30—104

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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

    7

    —

    —

    2943

    —

    130

    890

    —

    27

    1.1

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    822

    Togwotee Pass

    SNOTEL
    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, dry; 17 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 8.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N09977
    AB—9 to 30 centimeters (3.5 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, dry; 17 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 8.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N09978
    Bt1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dry; 24 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.2 coarse roots throughout; 6.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N09979
    Bt2—46 to 85 centimeters (18.1 to 33.5 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face, dry; 38 percent clay; strong coarse angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.2 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 70 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N09980
    Bt3—85 to 100 centimeters (33.5 to 39.4 inches); 70 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face and 30 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face, 70 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face and 30 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) broken face, dry; 38 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 40 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 13N09981