IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rubson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993ID021003
  • User Pedon ID: 1993ID021003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1993ID021003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0242
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66426
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 48.5881996
  • Std. Longitude: -116.4143982
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 61N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: About 300 feet north and 900 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Northwest of Naples.
  • Map Unit: 166—Rubson ashy silt loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID021—Boundary
  • MLRA: 44A—Northern Rocky Mountain Valleys
  • Regional Office: NW—Northwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-MOS—Moscow, Idaho
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID601—Boundary County Area, Idaho
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48116-E4—Naples, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Vitrandic Hapludalfs
  • 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 #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rubson
  • PSC - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/12/2016
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rubson
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed Vitrandic Glossoboralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 10/13/1993
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed volcanic ash and glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: glaciolacustrine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN570 - western hemlock/queencup beadlily—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/13/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    TSHE

    Tsuga heterophylla

    western hemlock

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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

    2

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    685

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    685

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    120

    7.5

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular and 3.0 medium tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bw1—3 to 23 centimeters (1.2 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular and 3.0 medium tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01503
    Bw2—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt1—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/4) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bt2—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), very pale brown (10YR 7/4) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt3—102 to 117 centimeters (40.2 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), yellow (10YR 7/6), dry; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.
    BC—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) and yellow (10YR 7/6), dry; very fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog.