IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rosebud
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1953WY015007
  • User Pedon ID: S1953WY015007
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3468
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38583
  • 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: 41.7455559
  • Std. Longitude: -104.4880524
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21N
  • Range: 64W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet south of northwest corner of the southeast quarter
  • Location Description: 200 feet east of road; photo 5-75.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY015—Goshen

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. J. Fox
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rosebud
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/2018
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/28/1953 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 5-75
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—48

    84—114

    —20—

    —28—

    —30—
    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

    4

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    180

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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; weak fine granular, and single grain; friable; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26839
    Ap2—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; extremely hard, friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26840. Removes in hard angular fragments.
    Bt1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; sandy clay loam; strong fine and medium prismatic, and angular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; extremely hard, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26841
    Bt2—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky parts to weak very fine granular, and single grain; extremely hard, friable; 3.0 fine roots and 21.0 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26842. Blocky units moderately porous; many old root channels and some fine roots.
    BC—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic, and angular blocky parts to single grain, and weak very fine granular; hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots and 0.5 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26843. A few fine roots and old root channels filled with dark brown material.
    C—71 to 84 centimeters (28.0 to 33.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; angular blocky parts to single grain; extremely hard, friable; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A26844
    Cr—84 to 114 centimeters (33.1 to 44.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A26845. (Not sampled.) Sandstone of the Arikaree formation (Miocene).