IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Atchee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989UT055001
  • User Pedon ID: 89UT055001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989UT055001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0038
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65382
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 38.4686012
  • Std. Longitude: -111.2742996
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27S
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet S and 2200 feet W of the NE 1/4
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT055—Wayne
  • MLRA: 35—Colorado Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. Swenn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Atchee
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/1989
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: structural bench
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • 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

    CEMO

    JUOS

    PIED

    Centaurea montana

    Juniperus osteosperma

    Pinus edulis

    perennial cornflower

    Utah juniper

    twoneedle pinyon

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—8

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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

    13

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    195

    254

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; weak medium granular parts to moderate fine granular structure; soft, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine pores; 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00308
    C—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky parts to moderate massive; slightly hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium and coarse roots; 0.5 very fine and fine pores; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P00309
    R—28 centimeters (11.0 inches); fragments.