IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ahrs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989ID079003
  • User Pedon ID: 1989ID079003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989ID079003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0747
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61846
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 47.5356306
  • Std. Longitude: -115.8679972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 48N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: about 2900 feet S and 100 feet E of NW corner
  • Location Description: NE of Wallace—Sunset Peak Rd.
  • Map Unit: 41—Honeyjones-Ahrs association, 15 to 35 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID079—Shoshone
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Regional Office: NW—Northwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-MOS—Moscow, Idaho
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID608—St. Joe Area, Idaho, Parts of Benewah and Shoshone Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47115-E8—Osburn, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy-skeletal over loamy-skeletal, amorphic over isotic, frigid Typic Udivitrands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ahrs
  • PSC - 4 to 104 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/3/2014
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ahrs
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Typic Vitrandept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over residuum weathered from metasedimentary rock
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Prichard formation of the Belt Supergroup group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN520 - grand fir/queencup beadlily—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: ABGR/CLUN
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABGR

    CLUN2

    XETE

    Abies grandis

    Clintonia uniflora

    Xerophyllum tenax

    grand fir

    bride's bonnet

    common beargrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    cambic horizon

    0—12

    4—40

    12—52

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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

    40

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    1388

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    217

    1195

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    105

    6

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    Oe—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 89P4309; observed in pit, small. partially decomposed needles, leaves, and twigs
    A—4 to 12 centimeters (1.6 to 4.7 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly ashy silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P4310; observed in pit, small. few coarse roots; common medium roots
    Bw1—12 to 22 centimeters (4.7 to 8.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; gravelly ashy silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P4311; observed in pit, small. common medium roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bw2—22 to 40 centimeters (8.7 to 15.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; very gravelly ashy silt loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P4312; observed in pit, small. common fine and medium roots; common very fine roots
    2Bw3—40 to 52 centimeters (15.7 to 20.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very gravelly silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P4313; observed in pit, small. few medium roots; common fine roots
    2C1—52 to 73 centimeters (20.5 to 28.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; extremely gravelly silt loam; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 85 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P4314; observed in pit, small. common very fine and fine roots
    2C2—73 to 98 centimeters (28.7 to 38.6 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; very gravelly silt loam; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P4315; observed in pit, small. few very fine and fine roots
    2C3—98 to 159 centimeters (38.6 to 62.6 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; very gravelly silt loam; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 89P4316; observed in pit, small. few very fine and fine roots