Megapit Details - NEON Data

D15 ONAQ Megapit Soils Description

PEDON DESCRIPTION

Print Date: Jul 22 2015	Country:
Description Date: Jun 2 2014	State: Utah
Describer: Randy Lewis; Ray Grow	County: Tooele
Site ID: 14UT611001RJL	MLRA: 28A -- Great Salt Lake Area
Site Note:	Soil Survey Area: UT611 -- Tooele Area, Utah - Tooele County and Parts of Box Elder, Davis and Juab Counties
Pedon ID: S2014UT045001	Map Unit: 64 -- Taylorsflat loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes
Pedon Note:	Quad Name: Faust, Utah
Lab Source ID: KSSL	Std Latitude: 40.1783389
Lab Pedon #: 14N0856	Std Longitude: -112.4538139
User Transect ID:
Soil Name as Described/Sampled: Taylorsflat
Classification: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Xeric Haplocalcids	Latitude: 40 degrees 10 minutes 42.02 seconds north
Soil Name as Correlated:	Longitude: 112 degrees 27 minutes 13.73 seconds west
Classification:	Datum: WGS84
Pedon Type: correlates to named soil	UTM Zone: 12
Pedon Purpose: research site	UTM Easting: 376224 meters
Taxon Kind: series	UTM Northing: 4448565 meters
Associated Soils:
Physiographic Division:	Primary Earth Cover: Shrub cover
Physiographic Province:	Secondary Earth Cover: Shrubby rangeland
Physiographic Section:	Existing Vegetation: cheatgrass, mountain big sagebrush, mustard, rabbitbrush, scarlet globemallow, squirreltail
State Physiographic Area:	Parent Material: eolian deposits over slope alluvium derived from limestone and sandstone
Local Physiographic Area:	Bedrock Kind:
Geomorphic Setting: fan remnant	Bedrock Depth:
Upslope Shape: concave	Bedrock Hardness:
Cross Slope Shape: convex	Bedrock Fracture Interval:
Particle Size Control Section: 25 to 100 cm.	Surface Fragments:
Description origin: NASIS	Description database: KSSL

Diagnostic Features:

ochric epipedon 0 to 12 cm.
cambic horizon 12 to 66 cm.
calcic horizon 66 to 178 cm.
petrocalcic horizon 178 to 196 cm.

Top Depth (cm)	Bottom Depth (cm)	Restriction Kind	Restriction Hardness
178	196	petrocalcic	strongly cemented

Cont. Site ID: 14UT611001RJL

Pedon ID: S2014UT045001

Slope (%)	Elevation (meters)	Aspect (deg)	MAAT (C)	MSAT (C)	MWAT (C)	MAP (mm)	Frost-Free Days	Drainage Class	Slope Length (meters)	Upslope Length (meters)
3.0	1,664.0	100	9.5			254	125	well

A1--0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) fine sandy loam, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; 10 percent clay; moderate thin platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots and common medium roots and common fine roots; many very fine low-continuity vesicular and many fine low-continuity vesicular pores; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 14N04366

A2--4 to 12 centimeters (1.6 to 4.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) fine sandy loam, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; 15 percent clay; weak medium platy parts to weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots and common medium roots and common fine roots; many very fine moderate-continuity tubular and few fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N04367

Bw--12 to 66 centimeters (4.7 to 26.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) loam, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; 21 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many very fine roots and few medium roots and few fine roots; many very fine moderate-continuity tubular and common fine moderate-continuity tubular and few coarse moderate-continuity tubular pores; 2 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2 to 75-millimeter mixed rock fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N04368

Bk--66 to 156 centimeters (26.0 to 61.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few very fine roots and few medium roots and few fine roots; few very fine moderate-continuity tubular and common fine moderate-continuity tubular and pores; carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix and 1 percent fine pendular strongly cemented carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments; 5 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2 to 75-millimeter mixed rock fragments; violent effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N04369

2CBk1--156 to 165 centimeters (61.4 to 65.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) gravelly loam, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; 18 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few very fine roots and few fine roots; few very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix and 1 percent fine pendular strongly cemented carbonate concretions around rock fragments and 1 percent very fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; 5 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2 to 75-millimeter mixed rock fragments and 15 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75 to 250-millimeter mixed rock fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N04370

2CBk2--165 to 178 centimeters (65.0 to 70.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) extremely gravelly loam, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; 18 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few very fine roots and few fine roots; few very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix and 10 percent fine pendular strongly cemented carbonate concretions around rock fragments and 2 percent very fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; 5 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75 to 250-millimeter mixed rock fragments and 65 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2 to 75-millimeter mixed rock fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N04371

2Bkm--178 to 196 centimeters (70.1 to 77.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) material, pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; strongly cemented by carbonates; 5 percent medium pendular strongly cemented carbonate laminae with sharp boundaries at top of horizon and 75 percent very coarse pendular strongly cemented carbonate concretions around rock fragments; 5 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75 to 250-millimeter mixed rock fragments and 65 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2 to 75-millimeter mixed rock fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N04372

3CBk3--196 to 200 centimeters (77.2 to 78.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) extremely gravelly loamy sand, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; 5 percent clay; single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix and 2 percent fine pendular strongly cemented carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments and 2 percent very fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; 5 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75 to 250-millimeter mixed rock fragments and 65 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2 to 75-millimeter mixed rock fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 14N04373