IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Latahco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977ID057007
  • User Pedon ID: 1977ID057007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UIdaho
  • Lab Pedon # - 77-ID-2978
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 80083
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 46.7260694
  • Std. Longitude: -116.9569722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 39N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 540 feet east and 1,570 feet south of the NW corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID057—Latah
  • MLRA: 9—Palouse and Nez Perce Prairies
  • Regional Office: NW—Northwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-MOS—Moscow, Idaho
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID057—Latah County, Idaho
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46116-F8—Moscow East, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Karl Hipple
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, frigid Xeric Argialbolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Latahco
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, frigid Xeric Argialbolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 71 to 121 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/22/1977
  • Classifier - Karl Hipple
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/27/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Karl Hipple
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    2

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    800

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    685

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    8.5

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    7

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; weak thin platy parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many very fine roots and many fine roots; many very fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ID29781
    AB—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many very fine roots and many fine roots; many very fine tubular and many fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ID29782
    Bw—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many very fine roots and many fine roots; many fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ID29783
    Ec1—51 to 61 centimeters (20.1 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few fine roots; many fine tubular pores; 10 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ID29784
    Ec2—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few fine roots; many fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ID29785
    Btcb1—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few fine roots; many fine tubular pores; silt coats on top faces of peds and 15 percent distinct dark gray (7.5YR 4/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 15 percent distinct dark gray (7.5YR 4/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium spherical iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # ID29786
    Btcb2—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few fine roots; many fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 15 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent medium spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # ID29787
    Btcb3—117 to 178 centimeters (46.1 to 70.1 inches); dark gray (7.5YR 4/1), gray (7.5YR 6/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very few fine roots; many fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 15 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent medium spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified. Lab sample # ID29788