IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Conto
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010ID021001
  • User Pedon ID: 10ID021001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2010ID021001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1371
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43390
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 48.8043333
  • Std. Longitude: -116.6005556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 63N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 659m west and 3m south of ne corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID021—Boundary
  • MLRA: 43—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Regional Office: NW—Northwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-MOS—Moscow, Idaho
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID670—Idaho Panhandle National Forest, Idaho-Washington-Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48116-G5—Pyramid Peak, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Brian Gardner, Bruce Knapp, Paul McDaniel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic Andic Humicryods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Conto
  • PSC - 28 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2013
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Conto
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Andic Haplorthods
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash and till derived from granite
  • Landscape: mountain range
  • Landform: mountain valley
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, lower third
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN625 - subalpine fir/queencup beadlily-menziesia phase—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/11/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: abla-clun/mefe
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABLA

    ARCO9

    BRVU

    CLUN2

    LYCOP2

    MEFE

    PIEN

    RIOX

    TITR

    VAME

    VECA2

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Arnica cordifolia

    Bromus vulgaris

    Clintonia uniflora

    Lycopodium

    Menziesia ferruginea

    Picea engelmannii

    Ribes oxyacanthoides

    Tiarella trifoliata

    Vaccinium membranaceum

    Veratrum californicum

    subalpine fir

    heartleaf arnica

    Columbia brome

    bride's bonnet

    clubmoss

    rusty menziesia

    Engelmann spruce

    Canadian gooseberry

    threeleaf foamflower

    thinleaf huckleberry

    California false hellebore

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    andic soil properties

    spodic horizon

    cambic horizon

    0—8

    3—8

    3—37

    8—37

    37—91

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    16

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    1661

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    110

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06569; observed in pit, small
    E—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; ashy silt loam; 10 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-25-75 millimeter granite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06570; observed in pit, small
    Bhs—8 to 26 centimeters (3.1 to 10.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; ashy silt loam; 8 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-25-75 millimeter granite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 600-1000-2000 millimeter granite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06571; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—26 to 37 centimeters (10.2 to 14.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; ashy silt loam; 10 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-25-75 millimeter granite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 600-1000-2000 millimeter granite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06572; observed in pit, small
    2Bs2—37 to 68 centimeters (14.6 to 26.8 inches); 65 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) and 35 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), 65 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 35 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; very cobbly sandy loam; 10 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots between peds and 0.2 medium roots between peds and 0.5 fine roots between peds; 2.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds and 20 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-25-75 millimeter granite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-150-250 millimeter granite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06573; observed in pit, small
    2BC—68 to 91 centimeters (26.8 to 35.8 inches); 75 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 25 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), 75 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) and 25 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; very cobbly sandy loam; 6 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along pores; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-25-75 millimeter granite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-150-250 millimeter granite fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06574; observed in pit, small
    2C1—91 to 116 centimeters (35.8 to 45.7 inches); 75 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), 75 percent white (2.5Y 8/1) and 25 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), dry; very bouldery sandy loam; 6 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent prominent clay films on rock fragments; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-150-250 millimeter granite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 600-1000-2000 millimeter granite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-25-75 millimeter granite fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06575; observed in pit, small
    2C2—116 to 152 centimeters (45.7 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; extremely bouldery sandy loam; 5 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 60-1000-2000 millimeter granite fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-150-250 millimeter granite fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-25-75 millimeter granite fragments. Lab sample # 10N06576; observed in pit, small