IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Strevell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016UT045018
  • User Pedon ID: S2016UT045018
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2016UT045018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0538
  • User Project ID: ONAQ_015_NEON
  • Project Name: Onaqui-Ault
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 40.1972028
  • Std. Longitude: -112.4380278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7 S.
  • Range: 5 W.
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: about 1600 feet south and 625 feet east of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: From NW corner the pit centroid is 20.4m southeast (171 degrees); 40.1972028, -112.43800278
  • Map Unit: 64—Taylorsflat loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT045—Tooele
  • MLRA: 28A—Ancient Lake Bonneville
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-OGD—Ogden, Utah
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT611—Tooele Area, Utah - Tooele County and Parts of Box Elder, Davis and Juab Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40112-B4—Faust, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lewis, Randy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Xeric Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Strevell
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Xeric Haplocalcids
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/29/2016
  • Classifier - Lewis, Randy
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: piedmont slope
  • Landform: fan remnant
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Ksat Class Upper: high
  • Ksat Class Lower: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - ONAQ_018
  • DSP Plot ID - NW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 171
  • Plot Baseline Length - 20
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Randy Lewis

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R028AY220UT Semidesert Loam (Wyoming Big Sagebrush)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/9/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: R. Lewis, M. Domeier, V. Parslow, S. Quistberg
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Kind of Land: rangeland
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ALMI2

    ARTRW8

    BRTE

    GUSA2

    Alyssum minus

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Bromus tectorum

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    alyssum

    Wyoming big sagebrush

    cheatgrass

    broom snakeweed

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—23

    23—100

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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

    5

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    1637

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    80

    279

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    125

    9.5

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    10.5

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    A1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 14 percent clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; many (8.0) very fine roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout; common (3.0) very fine low-continuity tubular and few (0.5) fine low-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 5-13-20 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02756; observed in pit, small
    A2—12 to 23 centimeters (4.7 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; many (8.0) very fine roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout; common (3.0) very fine low-continuity tubular and few (0.5) fine low-continuity tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 5-13-20 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02757; observed in pit, small
    Bkk—23 to 57 centimeters (9.1 to 22.4 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 15 percent clay; strong medium platy structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout; few (0.5) very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 50 percent coarse prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate nodules throughout and 10 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout and 15 percent medium distinct pendular weakly coherent cemented carbonate concretions around rock fragments and 10 percent very fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 5-13-20 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02758; observed in pit, small
    Ck1—57 to 83 centimeters (22.4 to 32.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; very gravelly fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 14 percent clay; massive; hard, firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout; few (0.5) very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 10 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout and 15 percent medium distinct pendular weakly coherent cemented carbonate concretions around rock fragments and 10 percent very fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-3-5 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 20-48-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 5-13-20 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH indicator solutions; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 17N02759; observed in pit, small
    Ck2—83 to 100 centimeters (32.7 to 39.4 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; gravelly fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 15 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout; few (0.5) very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and 5 percent fine distinct pendular weakly coherent cemented carbonate concretions around rock fragments; 2 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-3-5 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 3 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 20-48-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 5-13-20 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 17N02760; observed in pit, small