IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Duchesne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992UT009008
  • User Pedon ID: 92UT009008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992UT009008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0360
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64599
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 40.9075012
  • Std. Longitude: -109.8741684
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet E and 2200 feet S of the NW corner
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT009—Daggett
  • MLRA: 47—Wasatch and Uinta Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT648—Ashley National Forest Area, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T.D., R.L.
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Duchesne
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Cryoboralfs
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/10/1992
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/10/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARUV

    ARVA2

    PURSH

    Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

    Artemisia vaseyana

    Purshia

    kinnikinnick

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    bitterbrush

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

    argillic horizon

    28—97

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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

    10

    30

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    2548

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    135

    203

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    10

    12.8

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    7.8

    11.1

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02204; moist when described;
    Bw—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly sandy clay loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02205; moist when described;
    Bt—28 to 64 centimeters (11.0 to 25.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; very cobbly sandy clay loam; 33 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; distinct clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02206; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 192571; continuous - phpvsfiid 192571
    Btk1—64 to 107 centimeters (25.2 to 42.1 inches); 10 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 90 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4), 10 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) and 90 percent light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), dry; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 31 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and 3.0 very fine tubular pores; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 15 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02207; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 192572; continuous - phpvsfiid 192572
    Btk2—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), dry; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and 3.0 very fine tubular pores; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 15 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 92P02208; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 192573; continuous - phpvsfiid 192573