IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Caval
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2014UT0531160
  • User Pedon ID: 2014UT0531160
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 70C0054
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43835
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 37.3147240
  • Std. Longitude: -113.0875015
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40S
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: approximately 660 feet east and 330 feet south of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Zion NP, Lee Valley.
  • Map Unit: 690210—Pinepoint-Caval Taxadjunct complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT053—Washington
  • MLRA: 35—Colorado Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT641—Washington County Area, UtahUT690—Zion National Park, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Vear L. Mortensen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Ustorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Caval
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Ustorthents
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/17/1970
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands derived from sandstone
  • Landform: valley
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Ksat Class Upper: very high
  • Ksat Class Lower: high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/17/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • 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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    1768

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    190

    381

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    140

    8.9

    22.2

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    A1—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry; fine sandy loam; 68 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 70C00323
    A2—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; fine sandy loam; 63 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 21.0 interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 70C00324
    A3—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; fine sandy loam; 64 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 13 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 21.0 interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 70C00325
    C1—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; fine sandy loam; 62 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine and 21.0 interstitial and 21.0 tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 70C00326
    C2—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; fine sandy loam; 63 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and 21.0 interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 70C00327
    Bb—104 to 130 centimeters (40.9 to 51.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; fine sandy loam; 64 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 10 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and 3.0 fine and 21.0 interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 70C00328
    Btb—130 to 150 centimeters (51.2 to 59.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; sandy loam; 62 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 17 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 0.5 fine and tubular pores; 75 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified. Lab sample # 70C00329