IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kettenbach
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982ID061003
  • User Pedon ID: 1982ID061003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1982ID061003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0433
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50670
  • 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: 46.4385167
  • Std. Longitude: -116.3887667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: About 1300 feet south and 100 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Big Canyon Creek canyon upstream above Peck.
  • Map Unit: 57—Kettenbach-Gwin-Kettenbach, moist complex, 30 to 75 percent slopes
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID061—Lewis
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID611—Lewis and Nez Perce Counties, Idaho
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46116-D4—Peck, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kettenbach (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 10 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/20/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kettenbach
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Pachic Argixeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/26/1979
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 4
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: thin loess over colluvium derived from basalt
  • Landscape: canyonlands
  • Landform: canyon wall
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: basalt
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/26/1979 (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

    BALSA

    LOUT

    PSSP6

    Balsamorhiza

    Lomatium utriculatum

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    balsamroot

    common lomatium

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    64 -

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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—53

    25—64

    64—

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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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    645

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    113

    685

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    150

    9.5

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; stony silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many very fine roots and many fine roots; many very fine interstitial and many fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-?-600 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P02197
    BA—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many very fine roots and few medium roots and many fine roots; many very fine interstitial and few fine tubular and many fine interstitial pores; 15 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P02198
    Bt1—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many very fine roots and many fine roots and few coarse roots; many very fine interstitial and common fine tubular and many fine interstitial pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P02199
    Bt2—53 to 64 centimeters (20.9 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; extremely gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common fine roots; many very fine interstitial and many very fine tubular and many fine tubular and many fine interstitial pores; 25 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method and 70 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P02200. The B22t horizon is granular looking and breaks out into subangular blocky and then to granular structure, sample old surface
    R1—64 to 76 centimeters (25.2 to 29.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.
    R2—76 centimeters (29.9 inches); bedrock; granular, and subangular blocky, and granular structure; fragments.