IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kettenbach
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982ID035002
  • User Pedon ID: 1982ID035002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1982ID035002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0432
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50669
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 46.4166889
  • Std. Longitude: -116.1772194
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet east and 1400 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: 100—Gwin-Kettenbach complex, 35 to 75 percent slopes
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID035—Clearwater
  • MLRA: 9—Palouse and Nez Perce Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID612—Clearwater Area, Idaho
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46116-D2—Orofino East, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kettenbach
  • PSC - 43 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/4/2014
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kettenbach
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed, mesic Pachic Argixerolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/1982
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and colluvium derived from basalt
  • Landscape: canyonlands
  • Landform: canyon
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: basalt
  • Surface Fragments: 15.00 percent 76- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/22/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    FEID

    Festuca idahoensis

    Idaho fescue

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    81 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    0—58

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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

    65

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    710

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    180

    720

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    116

    9.6

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 82P02193
    A2—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 82P02194
    Bt1—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; very cobbly silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 82P02195
    Bt2—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; very cobbly silty clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # 82P02196
    R—81 centimeters (31.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.