LOCATION SLINGER UTEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, calcareous, frigid Xeric Torriorthents
TYPICAL PEDON: Slinger gravelly loam - on a 34 percent, convex, south facing slope in rangeland. (When described the soil was dry throughout. Colors are for air dry soil unless otherwise noted.)
A1--0 to 5 inches; reddish brown (5YR 5/4) gravelly loam, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) moist; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable; many fine and common medium roots; 30 percent gravel; very strongly calcareous, carbonate disseminated; strongly alkaline (pH 8.6); clear wavy boundary. (4 to 9 inches thick)
C1--5 to 14 inches; yellowish red (5YR 5/6) gravelly loam, dark red (2.5YR 3/6) moist; weak fine granular structure, soft, friable; many fine and medium roots; 30 percent gravel; strongly calcareous, carbonate disseminated; strongly alkaline (pH 8.8); clear wavy boundary. (9 to 14 inches thick)
C2--14 to 23 inches; red (2.5YR 5/6) very gravelly loam, red (2.5YR 4/6) moist; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm; few fine roots; 55 percent gravel; strongly calcareous, carbonate disseminated; strongly alkaline (pH 8.8); abrupt wavy boundary. (0 to 17 inches thick)
R--23 inches; fractured sandstone.
TYPE LOCATION: Rich County, Utah; about 8 1/2 miles west and 3 miles south of Randolph; 650 feet south and 1,700 feet west of the NE corner of section 11, T. 10 N., R. 5 E.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Fractured sandstone occurs at a depth of 20 to 40 inches. The ochric epipedon ranges from 4 to inches thick. Rock fragments range from 45 to 70 percent in the particle-size control section and commonly are angular pebbles and less commonly cobbles. The mean annual soil temperature is 39 to 42 degrees F., and the mean summer soil temperature is 60 to 63 degrees F. These soils are dry in all parts 50 to 55 percent of the time that the soil temperature at a depth of 20 inches is above 41 degrees F.
The A horizon has value of 5 or 6 dry and chroma of 4 through 6 dry and 6 through 8 moist. Gravel ranges from 15 to 30 percent. The A horizon is strongly calcareous or very strongly calcareous.
The C horizon has hue of 2.5YR or 5YR, value of 5 or 6 dry, 3 through 5 moist and chroma of 4 through 8 dry and 6 through 8 moist. It commonly is very gravelly loam and less commonly gravelly loam or very cobbly loam. Rock fragments range from 30 to 65 percent, with 20 to 50 percent as pebbles and 0 to 45 percent as cobbles. The C horizon is moderately calcareous or strongly calcareous.
COMPETING SERIES: These are the Ramshorn and Solak series. Ramshorn soils have more than 40 percent calcium carbonate in the control section. Solak soils are less than 20 inches deep to a lithic content.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: The Slinger soils are on foothills. Slopes range from 25 to 40 percent. The soils formed ln residuum and colluvium derived dominantly from sandstone. Elevations range from 6,400 to 7,400 feet. The mean annual temperature ranges from 37 to 40 degrees F., and the average annual precipitation from 9 to 14 inches. Freeze-free season is 55 to 75 days.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Alhark, Bullnel, Cowco, Cutoff, Duckree, Gridge, and Pancheri sol and the competing Solak soils. Alhark, Bullnel, Cowco, Gridge, and Pancheri soils have less than 35 percent rock fragments in the particle-size control section. Cutoff and Duckree soils have a layer of carbonate accumulation.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Somewhat excessively drained; very rapid runoff; moderately permeable.
USE AND VEGETATION: These soils are used for rangeland. Principal vegetation is black sagebrush, bluebunch wheatgrass, and Indian ricegrass.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: This series is moderately extensive in northeastern Utah.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Bozeman, Montana
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Rich County, Utah, 1980.
OSED scanned by SSQA. Last revised by state 4/80.
REMARKS:
The superactive cation exchange activity class was added in 03/2003 to the taxonomic classification by the National Soil Survey Center on request of the Reno MLRA office, without review of the soil series property data. The remainder of this document has not been updated.