IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Micapeak
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001WA063006
  • User Pedon ID: 2001WA063006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2001WA063006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0117
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14667
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 47.5438881
  • Std. Longitude: -117.1313858
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24 N
  • Range: 45 E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: About 120 feet east and 2575 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: About 1/4 mile northeast of IEP gate on upper Campbell Road
  • Map Unit: 5067—Quinnamose-Micapeak complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA063—Spokane
  • MLRA: 43—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Regional Office: NW—Northwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-MOS—Moscow, Idaho
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA063—Spokane County, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47117-E2—Freeman, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sue Malone
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Lamellic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Micapeak
  • PSC - 28 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/10/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Micapeak
  • Classificaton Date - 9/14/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed volcanic ash, loess and residuum weathered from gneiss
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, lower third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent strong weathered gneiss at 66cm
  • Geology: Mica Peak Gneiss formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN260 - Douglas-fir/ninebark—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/14/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Douglas Fir/Mallow Ninebark H.T.
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 27
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACMI2

    FEID

    HODI

    MARE11

    PAMY

    PIPO

    PSMEG

    ROGY

    SASC

    SPBE2

    Achillea millefolium

    Festuca idahoensis

    Holodiscus discolor

    Mahonia repens

    Paxistima myrsinites

    Pinus ponderosa

    Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca

    Rosa gymnocarpa

    Salix scouleriana

    Spiraea betulifolia

    common yarrow

    Idaho fescue

    oceanspray

    creeping barberry

    Oregon boxleaf

    ponderosa pine

    Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir

    dwarf rose

    Scouler's willow

    white spirea

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    66 - 203

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lamellae

    paralithic contact

    0—15

    15—38

    38—66

    66—203

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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

    23

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    860

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    222

    735

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    105

    7.3

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    7.8

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; 15 percent of fine mica flake.; observed in cut
    A—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; ashy loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 8.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 8.0 fine roots and 0.8 coarse roots; 8.0 very fine irregular and 8.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 medium irregular and 8.0 fine tubular and 8.0 fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-5-20 millimeter gneiss fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; observed in cut
    Bw—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly ashy sandy loam; 9 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.8 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 8.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 medium tubular and 8.0 fine irregular pores; 5 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified in matrix; 5 percent by volume subangular weakly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter gneiss fragments and 10 percent by volume subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter gneiss fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in cut
    2BCt—38 to 66 centimeters (15.0 to 26.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; paragravelly coarse sandy loam; 5 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 0.8 very fine roots and 0.8 fine roots; 8.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 medium tubular and 8.0 fine irregular pores; 5 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified in matrix; 5 percent by volume subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-5-20 millimeter gneiss fragments and 15 percent by volume subangular weakly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter gneiss fragments; 3 percent lamellae (lateral area percent); noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; observed in cut
    2Cr—66 to 203 centimeters (26.0 to 79.9 inches); bedrock; moderate excavation difficulty; fragments.; observed in cut