IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): unnamed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975UT023006
  • User Pedon ID: S1975UT023006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1975UT023006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 75C0085
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44997
  • Print Date: 4/27/2024

    • 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: 39.7949486
  • Std. Longitude: -111.9852295
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet east 2100 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: North end of Dog Valley
  • State: Utah
  • County: UT023—Juab
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: UT608—Fairfield-Nephi Area, Utah

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Fish, Swenson, Sorensen, Ferez, Behjat, Nettleton, Hutchings, Slighting
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic, shallow Aridic Petrocalcic Palexerolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - unnamed
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/2008
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rk
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from andesite and/or alluvium derived from rhyolite and/or alluvium derived from latite and/or colluvium derived from rhyolite and/or colluvium derived from andesite and/or colluvium derived from latite
  • Landform: hillside
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/13/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ARTR2

    BRTE

    JUNIP

    PSSP6

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Artemisia tridentata

    Bromus tectorum

    Juniperus

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    Indian ricegrass

    big sagebrush

    cheatgrass

    juniper

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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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

    20

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    1891

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    90

    6

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    110

    8.8

    20

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    A11—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; cobbly loam; weak thin platy, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 75C00470
    A12—6 to 15 centimeters (2.4 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine pores; 20 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 75C00471
    Bt2—15 to 27 centimeters (5.9 to 10.6 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very cobbly clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 3.0 fine pores; 5 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 75C00472
    Bac3—27 to 38 centimeters (10.6 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; cobbly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine pores; 35 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 75C00473. 10% hardpan fragments; moderately calcareous
    Cacm1—38 to 47 centimeters (15.0 to 18.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; extremely hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 75C00474. discontiuous indurated pan 60-70%; hardpan fragments; very strongly calcareous
    Cacm2—47 to 57 centimeters (18.5 to 22.4 inches); fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4. Lab sample # 75C00475. indurated hardpan with troweled surface; very strongly calcareous