IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Valent
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966WY019013
  • User Pedon ID: S1966WY019013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1966WY019013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3145
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38274
  • 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: 43.8719444
  • Std. Longitude: -106.2411118
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 45N
  • Range: 78W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4, NW1/4
  • Location Description: Blow-out area near headquarters of the Recluse Ranch.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY019—Johnson

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Harold Bindschadler
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Valent
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/23/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/23/1966 (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

    ACHY

    BOGR2

    CADU6

    CAFI

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Carex duriuscula

    Carex filifolia

    Indian ricegrass

    blue grama

    needleleaf sedge

    threadleaf sedge

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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

    10

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    1341

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    305

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    11.1

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    A11—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24570
    A12—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loamy fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24571
    C1—28 to 58 centimeters (11.0 to 22.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24572
    C2—58 to 117 centimeters (22.8 to 46.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24573
    C3—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches);, pale yellow (5Y 8/4), dry; very weakly coherent; sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A24574. Pale yellow, very weakly cemented, noncalcareous, fine grained sandstone.