United States, Utah, Tooele, Great Basin (D15), Onaqui NEON (ONAQ), Onaqui-Ault Megapit, MP1 [Location ID: MEGAPT100987]
35.68839 -83.50185 +-3m. WGS84
12N 376338.68055E 4448480.6216N
599 meters (1965ft)
Soil sample from the megapit for archive
NEON.DOC.001307vA
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