IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brownsto
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006WY041013
  • User Pedon ID: S2006WY041013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006WY041013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0336
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18783
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 41.1850815
  • Std. Longitude: -110.0962753
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 113W
  • Section: 24
  • Location Description: about 300 ft. south and 2500 ft. west of the northreast corner of
  • Map Unit: 150—Brownsto-Fonce complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY041—Uinta
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-PIN—Pinedale, Wyoming
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY041—Uinta County Area, Wyoming

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Ustic Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brownsto
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Ustic Haplocalcids
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/30/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 35 percent of CCE and 2 mm/homs of EC


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium and/or colluvium derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: strath terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium & Colluvium member of the Bridger Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter quartzite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/30/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 12530-67
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Bk1

    Bk2

    Bk3

    25

    36

    53

    36

    53

    107

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Bk1

    Bk2

    Bk3

    25

    36

    53

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    107

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Bk1

    Bk2

    Bk3

    25

    36

    53

    36

    53

    107

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    ec meter, 1:1 water

    ec meter, 1:1 water

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACHY

    ARTRW8

    JUSC2

    NAVI4

    PASM

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Juniperus scopulorum

    Nassella viridula

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Indian ricegrass

    Wyoming big sagebrush

    Rocky Mountain juniper

    green needlegrass

    western wheatgrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—10

    10—25

    25—107

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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

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; weak thin platy parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 7.0 fine roots throughout; 9.0 fine vesicular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly loam; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01760; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bk1—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; gravelly loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 6.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bk2—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; gravelly loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments and 10 percent faint very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, carbonate coats on all faces of peds; carbonate, finely disseminated and 5 percent fine distinct threadlike weakly coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, carbonate masses throughout and 2 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, carbonate concretions throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01761; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364188; continuous - phpvsfiid 364187; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364188; continuous - phpvsfiid 364187
    Bk3—53 to 107 centimeters (20.9 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 10 percent clay; structureless massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments; carbonate, finely disseminated and 5 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, carbonate concretions throughout and 7 percent fine distinct threadlike weakly coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, carbonate masses throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-400-600 millimeter quartzite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01762; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364189; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364189
    Bk4—107 to 203 centimeters (42.1 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly loamy coarse sand; 5 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 10 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments; carbonate, finely disseminated; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-400-600 millimeter quartzite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 55 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364190; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364190