IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Handoff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007ID079001
  • User Pedon ID: 20007ID079001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007ID079001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0353
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19746
  • 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: 47.1509094
  • Std. Longitude: -116.2656860
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID079—Shoshone
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID608—St. Joe Area, Idaho, Parts of Benewah and Shoshone Counties
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BG & BK
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial over loamy-skeletal, amorphic over isotic Typic Fulvicryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Handoff
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/9/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Handoff
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial over loamy-skeletal, mixed Vitric Fulvicryands
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/2007
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: ash flow
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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

    THPL

    ABLA

    PIEN

    LAOC

    PSMEG

    PTAQ

    ALSI3

    RUDBE

    CAREX

    BRIN2

    AGGI2

    CASTI2

    ANMA

    Thuja plicata

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Picea engelmannii

    Larix occidentalis

    Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca

    Pteridium aquilinum

    Alnus sinuata

    Rudbeckia

    Carex

    Bromus inermis

    Agrostis gigantea

    Castilleja

    Anaphalis margaritacea

    western redcedar

    subalpine fir

    Engelmann spruce

    western larch

    Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir

    western brackenfern

    coneflower

    sedge

    smooth brome

    redtop

    Indian paintbrush

    western pearly everlasting

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

    umbric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    cambic horizon

    0—56

    0—56

    25—109

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    9

    1375

    623

    Mica Creek

    SNOTEL

    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) medial silt loam; 8 percent clay; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02245. Concentrations: Charcoal is 3%
    A2—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) medial silt loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; loose; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 0.1 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02246. Five percent Mt. St. Helens ash in krotovina or root channers.
    Bw1—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/3) medial silt loam; 8 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; loose; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02247
    2Bw2—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) extremely gravelly loam; 10 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02248. Fragments: Wt. passing 3/4": Wt. retained on 3/4": Total Wt. 13# 10# 23# Wt. % retained on 3/4" 43%
    2Bw3—76 to 109 centimeters (29.9 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) extremely gravelly sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 very fine roots around fragments and fine roots around fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02249. Fragments: Wt. Passing 3/4" Wt. retained on 3/4": Total Wt. 16# 10# 26# Wt. % retained on 3/4" 38%
    2C—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) extremely gravelly loamy sand; 3 percent clay; massive; 0.5 very fine roots around fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 08N02250. Fragments: Wt. passing 3/4" Wt. retained on 3/4" 16# 7# Total Wt. Wt. percent retained on 3/4" 23# 30%