IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mellenthin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992UT055147C
  • User Pedon ID: 92UT055147C
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992UT055147C
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0911
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65151
  • 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: 38.2220001
  • Std. Longitude: -110.1529999
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30S
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 2800 feet W and 1000 feet S NE corner
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT055—Wayne
  • MLRA: 35—Colorado Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT631—Henry Mountains Area, Utah, Parts of Garfield, Kane, and Wayne Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Paul Menard Leland Sasser
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 147
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mellenthin
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed (calcareous) Lithic Ustic Torriorthents
  • PSC - 25 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/22/1992
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: mesa
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/22/1992 (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
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACHY

    JUOS

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Juniperus osteosperma

    Indian ricegrass

    Utah juniper

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—5

    16—38

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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

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; cobbly fine sandy loam; 78 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately slow permeability; 21.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05540
    Bw—5 to 16 centimeters (2.0 to 6.3 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; fine sandy loam; 76 percent sand; 15 percent silt; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 very fine to medium roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05541
    Bk—16 to 38 centimeters (6.3 to 15.0 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist; very cobbly fine sandy loam; 69 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 medium and coarse roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P05542. Thin lime coating on coarse fragments in lower part of horizon and on bedrock.
    R—38 centimeters (15.0 inches); fragments.