LOCATION BEEBE UT+NM

Established Series
Rev. JLS/CSW/JWB
04/2011

BEEBE SERIES

The Beebe series consists of very deep, well drained, rapidly permeable soils that formed in sandy alluvium derived mainly from sandstone. These soils are on flood plains, flood-plain steps, and alluvial fans. Slopes range from 0 to 6 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 9 inches and the mean annual temperature is about 50 degrees F.

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Sandy, mixed, mesic Typic Torrifluvents

TYPICAL PEDON: Beebe very fine sandy loam, rangeland. (Colors are for dry soil unless otherwise noted.)

A--0 to 2 inches; pale brown (10YR 6/3) very fine sandy loam, brown (10YR 4/3) moist; weak medium and thick platy structure; soft, very friable; few medium and many fine roots; common medium and fine pores; slightly effervescent, moderately alkaline (pH 8.0); clear smooth boundary. (2 to 12 inches thick)

C1--2 to 12 inches; light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) loamy fine sand, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) moist; weak thick platy structure; soft, very friable; few coarse and medium, and many fine roots; few medium and fine pores; slightly effervescent, very strongly alkaline (pH 9.7); clear smooth boundary. (10 to 20 inches thick)

C2--12 to 16 inches; light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine sand, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) moist; single grain; loose; many fine roots; few fine pores; slightly effervescent, very strongly alkaline (pH 9.6); clear wavy boundary. (0 to 6 inches thick)

C3--16 to 34 inches; light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) loamy fine sand, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) moist; massive; soft, very friable; many fine and medium roots; few medium and fine pores; slightly effervescent, strongly alkaline (pH 8.5); clear smooth boundary. (10 to 20 inches thick)

C4--34 to 39 inches; light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) loam, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) moist; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few medium and many fine roots; few medium and common fine pores; strongly effervescent, moderately alkaline (pH 7.9); clear smooth boundary. (0 to 5 inches thick)

C5--39 to 71 inches; light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) loamy fine sand, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) moist; massive; soft, very friable; many fine and few medium roots; few fine pores; strongly effervescent, moderately alkaline (pH 8.2).

TYPE LOCATION: Emery County, Utah; about 4 miles east of Emery, Utah; located about 260 feet south and 10 feet west of the NE corner of sec. 7, T. 22 S., R. 7 E. Salt Lake Meridian. Emery East USGS quad; lat. 38 degrees 55 minutes 24 seconds N. and long. 111 degrees 10 minutes 2 seconds W., NAD 83.

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:

Soil moisture: The soil moisture control section is usually dry, but intermittently moist during late summer and early fall. Aridic moisture regime..; typic aridic moisture regime.
Mean annual soil temperature: 47 degrees to 52 degrees F.
Exchangeable sodium: 20 to 70 percent in the upper 20 inches of the soil in areas that are not irrigated.
Calcium carbonate equivalent: 3 to 20 percent.
Reaction: slightly alkaline to very strongly alkaline.

Particle-size control section (weighted average):
Texture: Loamy fine sand but ranges from fine sand to loam in individual strata.

A horizon:
Hue: 10YR or 7.5YR
Value: 5 or 6 dry, 4 or 5 moist
Chroma: 2 to 4
Texture: contains or is covered by silt deposited from irrigation water or streams in many pedons.

C horizon:
Hue: 10YR or 7.5YR
Value: 6 or 7 dry, 4 or 5 moist
Chroma: 3 to 5

COMPETING SERIES: These are Baroid, Loveboldt, and Trail series. These soils have less than 20 percent exchangeable sodium. Baroid soils are moist in the moisture control section during May and June. Loveboldt soils have SAR of 0-2 ds/m. Trail soils have hue of 2.5YR through 7.5YR.

GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: These soils are on flood plains, flood-plain steps, and alluvial fans. Slopes range from 0 to 6 percent. Parent material is sandy alluvium derived mainly from sandstone, but it includes material from other sedimentary rocks. Elevation ranges from 4,000 to 6,200 feet. The climate is semiarid. Mean annual air temperature is 45 degrees to 50 degrees F., and the freeze-free period ranges from 110 to 160 days. Mean annual precipitation ranges from 6 to 11 inches

GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are Castle Valley, Penoyer, Ravola, Sheppard, Stumble and Woodrow soils. Castle Valley soils have sandy loam Bt horizons and are less than 20 inches deep over sandstone. Penoyer soils have a coarse-silty particle-size class. Ravola and Woodrow soils have a fine-silty particle-size class. Sheppard soils have fine sand or loamy fine sand throughout the series control section. Stumble soils are loamy sand or loamy fine sand throughout the series control section.

DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Well drained, slow runoff, rapid or moderately rapid permeability.

USE AND VEGETATION: Cultivated areas are used for growing corn, grain, alfalfa, watermelons and pasture. The present vegetation on rangeland is mainly greasewood, broom snakeweed, prickly pear, shadscale and Indian ricegrass.

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Central and eastern Utah, northwestern New Mexico and possibly other adjoining states. This series is of small extent. MLRA 34B and 35.

MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Bozeman, Montana

SERIES ESTABLISHED: Grand County, Utah, 1941.

REMARKS:
Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:

Ochric epipedon: The zone from 0 to 2 inches. (A horizon)

Fluvent feature: Irregular decrease in organic carbon with increasing depth; or 0.2 percent or more organic carbon at a depth of 125 cm .

Taxonomic version: Keys to Soil Taxonomy Eleventh Edition, 20010.

Laboratory data are available for this pedon. All pH values given are of soil paste. Utah State University lab nos. U584644 through U584649 (dated 1967); source: Carbon-Emery soil survey area, Utah, SCS, 1970.

Ownership was transferred from Phoenix, Arizona to Lakewood, Colorado, 09/2010.

The pedon used is borderline in the particle size class from sandy to sandy over loamy. Some pedons lack the loam horizon or in some pedons the thickness of the loam horizon is only 2 inches (too thin for sandy over loamy particle size class). More documentation is needed to justify the sandy over loamy particle size class.

Beebe will be limited to 47 to 52 degrees F. for MAST.

National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.