IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SWANBOY
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999WY005031
  • User Pedon ID: 99WY005031
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999WY005031
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0507
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11366
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 44.8413887
  • Std. Longitude: -105.0822220
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 56N
  • Range: 69W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 1500 feet west and 1300 feet south of the NE 1/2
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY005—Campbell
  • MLRA: 60A—Pierre Shale Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY705—Campbell County, Wyoming, Northern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44105-G1—Bonnie Reservoir, Wyoming

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: GH
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 31
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SWANBOY
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine Aridic Haplusterts
  • Classificaton Date - 7/22/1999
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: flat
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/22/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: I2
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    KOMA

    Koeleria macrantha

    prairie Junegrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    slickensides

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    0—10

    10—64

    10—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

    2

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    1212

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    325

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), moist; clay; strong medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine and medium granular structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03397; dry when described;
    Bssyz1—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), black (5Y 2/2), moist; clay; strong medium and coarse angular blocky parts to moderate fine and medium wedge structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent fine irregular light gray (10YR 7/2) gypsum masses at top of horizon and 20 percent fine irregular white (10YR 8/1) salt masses at top of horizon; fragments; very slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03398; moist when described;. Ped Surface feature: K 15 D D VF 15Y 3/1; Pores: IG 3
    Bssyz2—38 to 114 centimeters (15.0 to 44.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) and dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) and black (5Y 2/2), moist; clay; strong medium and coarse angular blocky parts to moderate fine and medium wedge structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent fine irregular light gray (10YR 7/2) gypsum masses at top of horizon and 5 percent fine irregular white (10YR 8/1) salt masses at top of horizon; fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03399; moist when described;. Ped surface feature: K 8 D D VF 5Y 3/1 & 3/2; pores: IG 3
    C—114 to 153 centimeters (44.9 to 60.2 inches); olive (5Y 4/3), dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), moist; clay; massive; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5 percent fine irregular light gray (10YR 7/2) gypsum crystals, unspecified at top of horizon and 5 percent fine irregular white (10YR 8/1) salt masses at top of horizon; fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 99P03400; moist when described;