IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Atchee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999UT017006
  • User Pedon ID: 99UT017006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999UT017006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0391
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11250
  • 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: 37.9242783
  • Std. Longitude: -111.2253342
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 5105—Atchee-Lazear, dry-Rock outcrop, Shinarump Conglomerate, complex, 5 to 60 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-H2—Lamp Stand, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, calcareous, mesic Lithic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Atchee
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Snd-105
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed (calcareous), mesic Lithic U
  • Classificaton Date - 5/13/1999
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/13/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 12-25A-35
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • 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

    ARTEM

    CHRYS9

    JUNIP

    Artemisia

    Chrysothamnus

    Juniperus

    sagebrush

    rabbitbrush

    juniper

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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

    2

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    1885

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    170

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    A1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; sandy loam; 8 percent clay; moderate thin platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 fine vesicular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P02145. effervescence: em
    Bw—2 to 9 centimeters (0.8 to 3.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P02146. effervescence: es
    C1—9 to 18 centimeters (3.5 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 4 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots and medium roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P02147. effervescence: es
    C2—18 to 31 centimeters (7.1 to 12.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 4 percent clay; massive; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine and fine roots and medium roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P02148. effervescence: es
    2C—31 to 37 centimeters (12.2 to 14.6 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy loam; 20 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 99P02149. effervescence: es; weathered sis
    3R—37 centimeters (14.6 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 99P02150. Shin SS