IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orella
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1964WY015004
  • User Pedon ID: S1964WY015004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1964WY015004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3126
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38255
  • 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: 41.9594460
  • Std. Longitude: -104.3158340
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23N
  • Range: 62W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 735 feet south and 125 feet west of a large dark colored post on the crest of a small hill and on the west side of the county road in Sec. 16. The large dark colored post is approximately at the east quarter corner
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY015—Goshen

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Arvad J. Cline
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Orella
  • PSC - 25 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/19/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/19/1964 (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

    ATCO

    DISP

    PASM

    SPAI

    SPAI

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Distichlis spicata

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Sporobolus airoides

    Sporobolus airoides

    shadscale saltbush

    saltgrass

    western wheatgrass

    alkali sacaton

    alkali sacaton

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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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    0

    381

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    9.4

    20.6

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24440
    C1ca—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; noncoherent cemented carbonate masses and gypsum crystals, unspecified and salt masses; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24441. Contains seam and large soft mass 2 to 3 inches in diameter of secondary calcium carbonate, calcium sulfate, and possibly other salts.
    C2—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches);, gray (10YR 6/1), dry; shale, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.1, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24442. Gray and olive partially weathered shale bedrock which breaks out in hard chip-like fragments.
    C3—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); shale, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A24443. Olive and gray unweathered or only weakly weathered shale bed-rock.