IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Conto
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010ID079002
  • User Pedon ID: 10ID079002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2010ID079002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0120
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73105
  • 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: 48.0572222
  • Std. Longitude: -116.2305556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 54N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 5
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID079—Shoshone
  • MLRA: 43A—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-A2—Derr Point, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bruce Knapp, Allyson Young
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic Andic Haplocryods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Conto
  • PSC - 28 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2013
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Conto-like
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic Andic Haplocryepts
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2010
  • 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 over residuum weathered from quartzite
  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN674 - subalpine fir/menziesia-grouse whortleberry phase—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/2/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: abla-mefe/vasc
  • 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

    LAOC

    MEFE

    PAMY

    PICO

    PIEN

    VAME

    XETE

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Larix occidentalis

    Menziesia ferruginea

    Paxistima myrsinites

    Pinus contorta

    Picea engelmannii

    Vaccinium membranaceum

    Xerophyllum tenax

    subalpine fir

    western larch

    rusty menziesia

    Oregon boxleaf

    lodgepole pine

    Engelmann spruce

    thinleaf huckleberry

    common beargrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    andic soil properties

    cambic horizon

    0—13

    8—13

    13—40

    13—40

    40—122

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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

    7

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    1626

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    320

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    645

    Mosquito Ridge

    SNOTEL
    Oi—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00572; observed in pit, small
    E—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) ashy silt loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00573; observed in pit, small
    Bhs—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) ashy silt loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 11N00574; observed in pit, small
    Bs—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) ashy silt loam; 12 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter quartzite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 11N00575; observed in pit, small
    2Bw1—40 to 54 centimeters (15.7 to 21.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) channery silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 1.0 very fine roots between peds and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots between peds and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 150-250-380 millimeter quartzite fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00576; observed in pit, small
    2Bw2—54 to 70 centimeters (21.3 to 27.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery silt loam; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 0.5 very fine roots between peds and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots between peds; 5 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 150-250-380 millimeter quartzite fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00577; observed in pit, small
    2BC—70 to 122 centimeters (27.6 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery silt loam; 17 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; 1.0 very fine roots between peds and 1.0 medium roots throughout; manganese coatings around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume flat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter quartzite fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 150-250-380 millimeter quartzite fragments and 25 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00578; observed in pit, small
    2C—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; 10 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 150-250-380 millimeter quartzite fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter quartzite fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-25-150 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 11N00579; observed in pit, small