IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kettenbach
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982ID069400
  • User Pedon ID: 1982ID069400
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1982ID069400
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0434
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50671
  • 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: 46.4954500
  • Std. Longitude: -116.7235611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: About 1500 feet south and 400 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Range site at Myrtle Beach. 200 feet east of Hwy 12.
  • Map Unit: 58—Kettenbach-Keuterville association, 35 to 75 percent slopes
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID069—Nez Perce
  • MLRA: 9—Palouse and Nez Perce Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID611—Lewis and Nez Perce Counties, Idaho
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46116-D6—Culdesac North, 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 #: 400
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kettenbach
  • PSC - 43 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/2005
  • 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 - 5/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 4
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and colluvium derived from basalt over residuum weathered from basalt
  • Landscape: canyonlands
  • Landform: canyon
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: basalt
  • Surface Fragments: 40.00 percent 2- to 76-millimeter 40.00 percent 76- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1979 (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

    BASA3

    LITHO2

    LOUT

    LUPIN

    PSSP6

    Balsamorhiza sagittata

    Lithophragma

    Lomatium utriculatum

    Lupinus

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    arrowleaf balsamroot

    woodland-star

    common lomatium

    lupine

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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

    bedrock, densic

    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

    0—53

    43—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

    55

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    305

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    270

    535

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    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent thin clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P02201
    BAt—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very gravelly clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent thin clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent thin clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method and 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P02202. maybe old surface becuase of mixed, granular appearance of peds while in place
    Bt1—43 to 53 centimeters (16.9 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very gravelly clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 75 percent thin clay films on surfaces along pores and 75 percent thin clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.6; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 82P02203
    Bt2—53 to 64 centimeters (20.9 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; extremely cobbly clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 75 percent thin clay films on surfaces along pores and 75 percent thin clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method and 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P02204. this horizon is not always present and is discontinuous in some pedons
    R—64 centimeters (25.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. fractured basalt bedrock with few fine fractures; few roots in fractures