IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moenkopie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: UT623_Moenkopie_152
  • User Pedon ID: UT623_Moenkopie_152
  • Vegetation Plot ID: UT623_Moenkopie_152
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0786
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65025
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 38.7130013
  • Std. Longitude: -110.1289978
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24 S.
  • Range: 16 E.
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: about 1,300 feet south and 1,300 feet east of the NW corner
  • Location Description: about 33 miles south of Green River, above Trin-Alcove Bend of the Green River
  • Map Unit: 100—Moenkopie-Poncho-Rock Outcrop complex, 3 to 20 percent slopes
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT015—Emery
  • MLRA: 35—Colorado Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT623—Emery Area, Utah, Parts of Emery, Carbon, Grand, and Sevier Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38110-F2—Moonshine Wash, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MAW and LS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, active, calcareous, mesic Lithic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: copied from NSSL sample 92UT015101A and modified to fit data
  • Pedon #: 101
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moenkopie
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, active, calcareous, mesic Lithic Torriorthents
  • PSC - 0 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/1992
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from calcareous sandstone over residuum weathered from calcareous sandstone
  • Landform: summit bench
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, calcareous at 22cm
  • Surface Fragments: 25.00 percent nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2- to 75-millimeter sandstone, calcareous, 5.00 percent nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75- to 250-millimeter sandstone, calcareous,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R035XY130UT Desert Shallow Sandy Loam (Shadscale)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/10/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ATCO

    PLJA

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Pleuraphis jamesii

    shadscale saltbush

    James' galleta

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
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    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    22 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—8

    22—

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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

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    11.7

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    A—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6), red (2.5YR 4/6), moist; fine sandy loam; 76 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 12 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P04779
    C1—7 to 17 centimeters (2.8 to 6.7 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; gravelly very fine sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 11 percent silt; 13 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments and 13 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P04780
    C2—17 to 22 centimeters (6.7 to 8.7 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4), red (2.5YR 4/6), moist; channery loamy fine sand; 79 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 6 percent clay; massive, and single grain; loose, loose, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments and 24 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-150 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P04781
    R—22 centimeters (8.7 inches); bedrock; fragments; slight effervescence.