IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Typic Cryorthents
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019WY001001
  • User Pedon ID: S2019WY001001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2019WY001001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0070
  • Print Date: 2/18/2026

    • 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: 41.2729167
  • Std. Longitude: -105.3704444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 71W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 805 feet west and 1,285 feet south from the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Located approximately 11 miles east-southeast from Laramie, Wyoming in Medicine Bow National Forest.
  • Map Unit: 220—Rogert-Rock outcrop-Amesmont complex, 5 to 25 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY001—Albany
  • MLRA: 49—Southern Rocky Mountain Foothills
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-FTM—Fort Morgan, Colorado
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY601—Albany County Area, Wyoming
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41105-C3—Green Top Mountain, Wyoming

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sara Mack & Andy Steinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Typic Cryorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Typic Cryorthents
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Typic Cryorthents
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • PSC - 25 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/10/2019
  • Classifier - Andy Steinert
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and/or slope alluvium over residuum weathered from granite
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Ksat Class Upper: high
  • Ksat Class Lower: moderately low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: granite at 64cm
  • Surface Fragments: 55.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter granite, 1.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter granite, 1.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 600- to 1000-millimeter granite, 5.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 76- to 250-millimeter granite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/22/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Sara Mack & Andy Steinert
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 16
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARFR4

    ARTRW8

    DAPA2

    HECO26

    PUTR2

    Artemisia frigida

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Danthonia parryi

    Hesperostipa comata

    Purshia tridentata

    prairie sagewort

    Wyoming big sagebrush

    Parry's oatgrass

    needle and thread

    antelope bitterbrush

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    64 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—13

    64—

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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

    35

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    2447.5

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    180

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, dry; gravelly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout and common (1.0) fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-3-20 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00283; observed in pit, small
    BA—13 to 35 centimeters (5.1 to 13.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; common (1.0) very fine roots throughout and common (1.0) fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-100-250 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 20-50-75 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 43 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-3-20 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00284; observed in pit, small
    2C/B—35 to 64 centimeters (13.8 to 25.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face, dry; coarse sand; 92 percent sand; 5 percent silt; 3 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 211.5 um/s; very rapid permeability; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 20N00285; observed in pit, small
    2Cr—64 centimeters (25.2 inches); bedrock; Ksat of 1 um/s; slow permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small