LOCATION SHEEGE                  ID+MT NV UT WY

Established Series
Rev. RAS/ CBR/RGK
05/2018

SHEEGE SERIES

Landscape--mountains, hills
Landform--mountain slopes, ridges, hillslopes
Slope--0 to 70 percent
Parent material--loess-influenced colluvium over limestone
Mean annual precipitation--about 525 mm
Mean annual air temperature--about 5 degrees C
Depth class--shallow
Drainage class--well drained
Soil moisture regime--xeric
Soil temperature regime--cryic

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic Lithic Cryrendolls

TYPICAL PEDON: Sheege very stony loam in an area of rangeland (Colors are for dry soil unless otherwise noted.)

A1--0 to 15 cm; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) very stony loam, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) moist; moderate very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky and slightly plastic; common very fine and fine roots; many very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent gravel, 15 percent cobbles, and 20 percent stones; calcium carbonate coatings on bottom of rock fragments; slightly effervescent; slightly alkaline (pH 7.8); gradual wavy boundary

A2--15 to 43 cm; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) very stony loam, dark brown (10YR 3/3) moist; weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky and slightly plastic; common very fine and fine roots; many very fine and fine pores; 20 percent gravel, 15 percent cobbles, and 15 percent stones; calcium carbonate coatings 0.5 to 3.0 mm thick and pendular calcium carbonate nodules on bottom of rock fragments; violently effervescent; moderately alkaline (pH 8.0); abrupt broken boundary

R--43 cm; dark gray (N 4/0) limestone; somewhat fractured; little soil material in cracks; calcium carbonate coatings 0.5 to 2.0 mm thick on bedrock

TYPE LOCATION: Bingham County, Idaho; latitude 43.19094 degrees north, longitude 111.71564 degrees west, datum WGS 84

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Mean annual soil temperature--3.3 to 5.6 degrees C
Depth to bedrock--25 to 50 cm
Thickness of mollic epipedon--15 to 46 cm
Percentage of surface covered with stones--0 to 15 percent

Particle-size control section (weighted averages)
Clay content--8 to 27 percent
Total rock fragment content--35 to 60 percent
Calcium carbonate equivalent--40 to 60 percent

A horizon
Value--4 or 5 dry, 2 or 3 moist
Chroma--1 to 3 dry or moist
Texture (less than 2-mm fraction)--loam, sandy loam
Clay content--5 to 27 percent
Total rock fragment content--25 to 55 percent
Gravel content--5 to 35 percent
Cobble content--3 to 25 percent
Stone content--0 to 33 percent
Calcium carbonate equivalent--0 to 60 percent (upper 5 or 8 cm noncalcareous in some pedons)
Reaction--pH 7.4 to 8.4
Thickness--25 to 56 cm

C horizon (where present)
Hue--10YR, 2.5Y
Value--5 to 8 dry, 4 to 7 moist
Chroma--2 to 4 dry or moist
Total rock fragment content--35 to 60 percent
Gravel content--0 to 30 percent
Cobble content--15 to 30 percent
Calcium carbonate equivalent--40 to 50 percent
Reaction--pH 7.4 to 8.4
Thickness--0 to 35 cm

COMPETING SERIES:
Halacan--cambic horizon; loam throughout
Haunchee--cambic horizon; mean annual soil temperature of 6 to 7 degrees C

GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Elevation--1981 to 3048 m
Mean annual air temperature--2 to 7 degrees C
Mean annual precipitation--381 to 686 mm
Frost-free period--50 to 90 days

GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: None listed

DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY:
Drainage class--well drained
Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat)--5 to 25 um/sec

USE AND VEGETATION:
Major use--rangeland
Potential native vegetation--big sagebrush, snowberry, western wheatgrass, yarrow, and wyethia; ponderosa pine, Douglas-fir, white fir, timber pine, creeping juniper, slender wheatgrass, manzanita, Rocky Mountain juniper, and Oregon grape in some areas

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Moderate extent in southern Idaho, southern Utah, and central Nevada; MLRAs 12, 13, and 43B

SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (SSRO) RESPONSIBLE: Portland, Oregon

SERIES ESTABLISHED: Paunsaugunt Area, Utah; 1969

REMARKS:
Diagnostic horizons and other features recognized in this pedon
Mollic epipedon--zone from the surface to a depth of 43 cm (A1 and A2 horizons)
Depth to lithic contact--43 cm
Particle-size control section--zone from 25 to 43 cm (part of A1 horizon, A2 horizon)

The Sheege soils formerly were classified as Lithosols.

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National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.