IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mespun
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997UT017003
  • User Pedon ID: 97UT017003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1997UT017003
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0087
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10359
  • 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: 37.5669708
  • Std. Longitude: -111.3986359
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Near Left Hand Collect Canyon Road and Hole in the Rock Road.
  • Map Unit: 5015—Mespun fine sand, 2 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT017—Garfield
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT686—Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Area, Parts of Kane and Garfield Counties, Utah
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37111-E4—Seep Flat, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Siliceous, mesic Ustic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mespun
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mespun
  • Taxonomic Class - Siliceous, mesic Ustic Torripsamment
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/1997
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: dune
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/1997 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARFI2

    CHRYS9

    TETRA3

    Artemisia filifolia

    Chrysothamnus

    Tetradymia

    sand sagebrush

    rabbitbrush

    horsebrush

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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

    3

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    1585

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    275

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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; fine sand; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P00540
    C—12 to 150 centimeters (4.7 to 59.1 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; fine sand; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 98P00541