IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mespun
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990UT025008
  • User Pedon ID: 90UT025008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P1020
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62953
  • 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: 37.1236115
  • Std. Longitude: -112.6291656
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 42S
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4, SE 1/4, .9 mile from road intersection 50
  • Location Description: Kane County - Cave Lake Canyon.
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT025—Kane

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hodson and Crandel.
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mespun
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed Ustic Torripsamments
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: undulating
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1990 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    4

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    1841

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P06258. common very fine and fine roots
    A2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; fine sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P06259. many very fine and fine roots
    C1—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; fine sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine to coarse roots; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P06260. few fine to coarse roots; common medium roots
    C2—51 to 89 centimeters (20.1 to 35.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; fine sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P06261. few medium and coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    C3—89 to 145 centimeters (35.0 to 57.1 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 7/6), reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), moist; fine sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P06262. few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots
    C4—145 to 160 centimeters (57.1 to 63.0 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), pink (5YR 7/4), moist; fine sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 90P06263. few very fine and fine roots
    2R—160 to 170 centimeters (63.0 to 66.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 90P06264. sandstone bedrock upper part fractured - roots in cracks and on plate surfaces