IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rubson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997ID021003
  • User Pedon ID: 1997ID021003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0033
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10306
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 48.6275558
  • Std. Longitude: -116.3368607
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 61N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 1075 feet SOUTH AND 1175 feet WEST OF THE NE CORNER
  • Map Unit: 166—Rubson ashy silt loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID021—Boundary
  • MLRA: 44A—Northern Rocky Mountain Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID601—Boundary County Area, Idaho
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48116-F3—Bonners Ferry, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SB, CW
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Vitrandic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rubson
  • PSC - 25 to 100 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
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/25/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed volcanic ash and silty lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: glacial lake terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—102

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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

    1

    137

    —

    693

    —

    685

    —

    120

    7.5

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) exterior, dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, slightly plastic; deformable; low toughness; moderate permeability; 6.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 4.0 medium roots throughout; 4.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity tubular and 0.5 medium moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00201; moist when described;
    Bt1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) exterior, dry; silt loam; moderate thick platy, and moderate very thick platy structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; deformable; low toughness; moderate permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular and 0.5 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; 21 percent lamellae (volume percent); slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00202; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1314530; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1314530
    Bt2—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) exterior, dry; silt loam; moderate thick platy, and moderate very thick platy structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; deformable; low toughness; moderate permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; 21 percent lamellae (volume percent); neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00203; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1314531; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1314531
    Bt3—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) exterior, dry; silt loam; weak thick platy, and weak very thick platy structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; deformable; low toughness; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular and 0.5 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; 21 percent lamellae (volume percent); slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00204; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1314532; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1314532
    Bt4—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) exterior, dry; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; deformable; low toughness; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; 21 percent lamellae (volume percent); slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00205; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1314533; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1314533
    C—102 to 165 centimeters (40.2 to 65.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) exterior, dry; loamy very fine sand; massive; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; deformable; low toughness; moderately rapid permeability; 6.0 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 98P00206; moist when described;