IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kettenbach
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982ID057005
  • User Pedon ID: 1982ID057005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1982ID057005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0435
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50672
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 46.5661125
  • Std. Longitude: -116.7233353
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet east and 1980 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 5—Bluesprin-Flybow complex, 35 to 65 percent slopes
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID057—Latah
  • MLRA: 9—Palouse and Nez Perce Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID610—Latah County Area, IdahoID057—Latah County, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kettenbach
  • Classificaton Date - 3/28/2013
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kettenbach
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landform: canyon
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Bedrock: basalt
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/23/1982 (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

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    79 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—64

    43—79

    79—

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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

    60

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    671

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    225

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    A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), black (10YR 2/1), moist; gravelly silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 82P02205
    A2—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 82P02206
    Bt1—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very cobbly clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # 82P02207
    Bt2—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very cobbly clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # 82P02208
    R—79 centimeters (31.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.