IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Showalter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968UT017009
  • User Pedon ID: 68UT017009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1968UT017009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68C0039
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42964
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 37.7449989
  • Std. Longitude: -112.2186127
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35S
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Paunsaugunt Soil Survey Area, Utah. Tom Best Spring Road.
  • Map Unit: 131—Showalter-Guben complex, dry, 0 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT017—Garfield
  • MLRA: 47—Wasatch and Uinta Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT636—Panguitch Area, Parts of Garfield, Iron, Kane, and Piute Counties, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Mitchell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Calcidic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Showalter
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/10/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Showalter
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landform: pediment
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/14/1968 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARNO4

    CHRYS9

    Artemisia nova

    Chrysothamnus

    black sagebrush

    rabbitbrush

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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

    2

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    2408

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    180

    406

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    6.1

    16.7

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; gravelly loam; weak medium granular parts to single grain; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fine and fine roots and 21.0 medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine pores; 15 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C00216
    B1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fine and fine roots and 21.0 medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C00217
    B21t—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00218
    IIB22t—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00219
    IIB23t—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and pinkish white (5YR 8/2), reddish brown (5YR 5/4) and pink (5YR 7/3), moist; gravelly clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00220
    IIB3ca—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and pale yellow (5Y 8/2), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine pores; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00221
    IIIC1ca—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) and brown (7.5YR 5/4), pink (7.5YR 7/4) and brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly loam; moderate medium platy structure; slightly hard, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 70 percent pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), dry, carbonate concretions; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00222
    IIIC2—122 to 142 centimeters (48.0 to 55.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; carbonate concretions; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 68C00223