IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kishona
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2018WY009086
  • User Pedon ID: S2018WY009086
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 19N0011
  • 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: 43.4536417
  • Std. Longitude: -105.2646778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 122—Hiland-Bowbac complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY009—Converse
  • MLRA: 58B—Northern Rolling High Plains, Southern Part
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-BUF—Buffalo, Wyoming
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY709—Converse County, Wyoming, Northern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JBD_MRL_ALB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kishona
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/2018
  • Classifier - JBD_MRL_ALB
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian deposits derived from calcareous siltstone over scoria derived from porcellanite
  • Landscape: sedimentary plains
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent scoria at 110cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/25/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: JBD_MRL
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • 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

    moderately coherent

    110 - 200

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

    ochric epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—15

    110—200

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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

    3

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    1467

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    40

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; ; fragments; 0.3 mmhos/cm of Electrical Conductivity; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N00058; observed in pit, small
    Bn1—15 to 40 centimeters (5.9 to 15.7 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; 0.1 mmhos/cm of Electrical Conductivity; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N00059; observed in pit, small
    Bn2—40 to 75 centimeters (15.7 to 29.5 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 7 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; 0.4 mmhos/cm of Electrical Conductivity; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N00060; observed in pit, small
    Bkn—75 to 92 centimeters (29.5 to 36.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; channery silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries throughout; 15 percent by volume flat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter scoria fragments; 0.3 mmhos/cm of Electrical Conductivity; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 19N00061; observed in pit, small
    C—92 to 110 centimeters (36.2 to 43.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; channery sandy loam; 31 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries throughout; 25 percent by volume flat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter scoria fragments; 2.7 mmhos/cm of Electrical Conductivity; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 19N00062; observed in pit, small
    Cr—110 to 200 centimeters (43.3 to 78.7 inches); fragments; noneffervescent.; observed in pit, small