IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cathedral
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001WY009004
  • User Pedon ID: S2001WY009004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2001WY009004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0943
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13565
  • 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: 42.7101097
  • Std. Longitude: -105.9124451
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 76W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: Southeast 1/4 of Southeast 1/4
  • Location Description: Protsmans Knob
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY009—Converse
  • MLRA: 58B—Northern Rolling High Plains, Southern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MRL, GFL, NJC, TC, EB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, paramicaceous, frigid Lithic Haplustolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cathedral
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, paramicaceous, frigid Lithic Haplustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 7/18/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: granite
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: granite at 31cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/18/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 421-60
  • 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

    FEID

    PASM

    PIPO

    PYRRO

    Festuca idahoensis

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Pinus ponderosa

    Pyrrocoma

    Idaho fescue

    western wheatgrass

    ponderosa pine

    goldenweed

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    31—

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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

    15

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    2123

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    293

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout; 12.0 fine vesicular pores; 35 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04966; moist when described;
    Bw—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout; 10.0 fine interstitial pores; 35 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04967; moist when described;
    C—18 to 31 centimeters (7.1 to 12.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 35 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04968; moist when described;
    R—31 centimeters (12.2 inches); fragments.