IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Borvant
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016UT045029
  • User Pedon ID: S2016UT045029
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2016UT045029
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0539
  • User Project ID: ONAQ_015_NEON
  • Project Name: Onaqui-Ault
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 40.2196139
  • Std. Longitude: -112.4733944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7 S.
  • Range: 6 W.
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: about 1290 feet north and 1320 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: From SW corner the pit centroid is 10.1m northeast (30 degrees); 40.2196139, -112.4733944
  • Map Unit: 7—Borvant gravelly loam, 2 to 15 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: Crossland, Keith
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic, shallow Petrocalcic Calcixerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Borvant
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic, shallow Petrocalcic Calcixerepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 0 to 22 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/29/2016
  • Classifier - Lewis, Randy
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • 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: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Ksat Class Upper: high
  • Ksat Class Lower: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 60.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter sedimentary, unspecified, 10.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 75- to 250-millimeter sedimentary, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - ONAQ_029
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 30
  • Plot Baseline Length - 10
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Keith Crossland

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R028AY320UT Upland Shallow Hardpan (Pinyon-Utah Juniper)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/9/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: K. Crossland, J. Bodily, K. Bear, M. Albers
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Kind of Land: grazable woodland
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACHY

    ARNO4

    BRTE

    JUOS

    PSSP6

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Artemisia nova

    Bromus tectorum

    Juniperus osteosperma

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    Indian ricegrass

    black sagebrush

    cheatgrass

    Utah juniper

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    petrocalcic

    strongly coherent

    22 - 56

    25 - 34 - 100
    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    0—6

    6—22

    22—56

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    —16—

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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

    6

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    1731

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    80

    330

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    120

    8.3

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    9

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    A—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly loam; 35 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 21 percent clay; moderate thin platy parts to moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; many (7.0) very fine roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout; many (8.0) very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 20-48-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-13-20 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02761; observed in pit, small
    Bk—6 to 22 centimeters (2.4 to 8.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; very gravelly loam; 35 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 20 percent clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; many (5.0) very fine roots throughout and few (0.5) medium roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout; common (3.0) very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 10 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout and 10 percent medium distinct pendular strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 20-48-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-13-20 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02762; observed in pit, small
    Bkkm—22 to 56 centimeters (8.7 to 22.0 inches); white (10YR 8/1), very pale brown (10YR 8/3), moist; cemented very cobbly material; strongly coherent by carbonates; very slow permeability; 5 percent fine distinct irregular silica concretions and 45 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 20-48-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-13-20 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; third stage carbonates developled on coarse fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions.; observed in pit, small