IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): unnamed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981WY037004
  • User Pedon ID: 81WY037004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1981WY037004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0813
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50207
  • Print Date: 4/27/2024

    • 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: 41.5113907
  • Std. Longitude: -109.7980576
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 110W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: about center
  • Location Description: 120 ft west of dirt road at intersection with jeep trail. About 3 miles southeast of Little America.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY037—Sweetwater
  • MLRA: 34—Central Desertic Basins, Mountains, and Plateaus

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. Ravenholt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Calciorthids
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - unnamed
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2005
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pepal
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Calciorthid
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/2/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ACHY

    ARTR2

    CHVI8

    HECOC8

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Artemisia tridentata

    Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

    Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata

    Indian ricegrass

    big sagebrush

    yellow rabbitbrush

    needle and thread

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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

    1

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    1926

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    8

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    95

    6

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; sandy loam; weak medium granular, and weak medium platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04848
    B2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04849
    Bac3—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 81P04850
    Cac1—38 to 69 centimeters (15.0 to 27.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3) sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; carbonate coats on rock fragments; carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04851
    C3—69 to 142 centimeters (27.2 to 55.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8. Lab sample # 81P04853
    Cac2—69 to 142 centimeters (27.2 to 55.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3) sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; carbonate coats on rock fragments; carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04852
    2Cac4—142 to 175 centimeters (55.9 to 68.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; cobbly sandy clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; silica coats on rock fragments and carbonate coats on rock fragments; 20 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # 81P04854