LOCATION GOGGIN UTEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Carbonatic, mesic Typic Xeropsamments
TYPICAL PEDON: Goggin sand--on an east-facing, undulating, 3 percent slope under Wyoming big sagebrush, rabbitbrush, black greasewood, and Indian ricegrass at an elevation of 4,210 feet--rangeland. (Colors are for dry soil unless otherwise noted.)
A--0 to 3 inches; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sand, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) moist; single grain; loose, nonsticky and nonplastic; few very fine and fine roots; many very fine and fine interstitial pores; violently effervescent; moderately alkaline (pH 8.2); clear smooth boundary. (3 to 5 inches thick)
C1--3 to 20 inches; pale brown (10YR 6/3) sand, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) moist; single grain; loose, nonsticky and nonplastic; common very fine and fine roots; many very fine and fine interstitial pores; violently effervescent; moderately alkaline (pH 8.4); clear wavy boundary. (10 to 20 inches thick)
C2--20 to 30 inches; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sand, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) moist; single grain; loose, nonsticky and nonplastic; few very fine roots; many very fine and fine interstitial pores; violently effervescent; strongly alkaline (pH 8.6); clear wavy boundary. (10 to 40 inches thick)
C3--30 to 60 inches; light gray (10YR 7/2) sand, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) moist; single grain; loose, nonsticky and nonplastic; many very fine and fine interstitial pores; violently effervescent; strongly alkaline (pH 8.8); clear wavy boundary.
TYPE LOCATION: Salt Lake County, Utah; about 4 miles north-northwest of Saltair; approximately 2,400 feet west and 600 feet north of the southeast corner of section 12, T. 1 N., R. 3 W.; USGS Antelope Island South 7.5 minute topographic quadrangle; 40 degrees 49 minutes 41 seconds north latitude and 112 degrees 07 minutes 46 seconds west longitude, NAD83; UTM zone 12N 404765E, 4520284N, NAD83.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Soil moisture - Typically moist in winter and spring, dry in summer and fall; the soils are dry in all parts of the moisture control section for more than 60 consecutive days following the summer solstice in normal years; Xeric moisture regime that borders on aridic.
Mean annual soil temperature - 48 to 54 degrees F.
Particle-size control section - Clay content: 0 to 10 percent; Rock fragments: 0 to 15 percent, mainly gravel and small channers.
A horizon - Hue: 10YR or 2.5Y.
Value: 5 or 6 dry, 4 or 5 moist.
Chroma: 2 or 3, dry or moist.
Salinity (EC): 0 to 8 mmhos/cm.
Reaction: Moderately alkaline or strongly alkaline.
Calcium carbonate equivalent: 40 to 90 percent.
C horizon - Hue: 10YR or 2.5Y.
Value: 5 through 7 dry, 4 through 6 moist.
Chroma: 2 or 3, dry or moist.
Salinity (EC): 0 to 8 mmhos/cm.
Reaction: Moderately alkaline or strongly alkaline.
Calcium carbonate equivalent: 40 to 90 percent.
Other features: Some pedons have lithologic discontinuities to clayey or silty lacustrine deposits below a depth of 40 inches.
COMPETING SERIES: There are currently no other series in this family.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Parent material: Beach sand and eolian sands derived mainly from oolites (ooliths). Oolites are small, rounded, sand-sized accretions formed of concentric layers of calcium carbonate around a sand-sized nucleus of mineral or organic origin and formed in wave-agitated waters. Mineral grains derived from metamorphic and sedimentary rocks are also a component of the soil parent material.
Landform: Slightly elevated beach ridges and stable dunes along the edge of the Great Salt Lake.
Slope: 1 to 6 percent.
Elevation: 4,205 to 4,215 feet.
Mean annual temperature: 46 to 52 degrees F.
Mean annual precipitation: 12 to 16 inches.
Wettest months: October through May.
Driest months: June through September.
Frost-free period: 160 to 180 days.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Saltair, Lasil, and Jordan soils. Saltair soils are fine-silty, have salic horizons, and occur under pickleweed. Lasil soils are fine-silty, have natric horizon, and occur under black greasewood. Jordan soils are fine textured, have natric and salic horizons, and occur under black greasewood.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Excessively drained; very low surface runoff; rapid or very rapid permeability (high or very high saturated hydraulic conductivity).
USE AND VEGETATION: Goggin soils are used mainly for wildlife habitat. Potential native plants are mainly Wyoming big sagebrush, rubber rabbitbrush, black greasewood, and Indian ricegrass.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Northern Utah along the Great Salt Lake. These soils are not extensive. MLRA 28A.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Phoenix, Arizona.
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Salt Lake County, Utah, 2006.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon - The zone from the soil surface to 3 inches (A horizon).
Particle-size control section - The zone from 10 to 40 inches (C2 horizon and parts of the C1 and C3 horizons).