IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vaywood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2010ID049001
  • User Pedon ID: 2010ID049001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2010ID049001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0121
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72927
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 46.4663194
  • Std. Longitude: -114.6330833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 6.20
  • Township: 36N
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 296m south and 845m east of NW corner
  • Map Unit: NOTCOM—No Digital Data Available
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID049—Idaho
  • MLRA: 43B—Central Rocky Mountains
  • Regional Office: NW—Northwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-MOS—Moscow, Idaho
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID671—Clearwater National Forest, Idaho
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46114-D6—Grave Peak, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Brian Gardner, Bruce Knapp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial over loamy-skeletal, amorphic over isotic Ultic Vitricryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vaywood
  • PSC - 7 to 107 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2013
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vaywood
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial over loamy-skeletal, amorphic over isotic Typic Haplocryands
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over residuum weathered from quartzite
  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: saddle
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: quartzite
  • Geology: Calc-silicate Gneiss And Quartzite member of the Wallace Formation formation in the Belt Supergroup group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN674 - subalpine fir/menziesia-grouse whortleberry phase—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/7/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Forest Rotation Stage - late
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    2MOSS

    ABLA

    BRVU

    COOC

    MEFE

    PIEN

    VASC

    XETE

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    Abies lasiocarpa

    Bromus vulgaris

    Coptis occidentalis

    Menziesia ferruginea

    Picea engelmannii

    Vaccinium scoparium

    Xerophyllum tenax

    Moss

    subalpine fir

    Columbia brome

    Idaho goldthread

    rusty menziesia

    Engelmann spruce

    grouse whortleberry

    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

    argillic horizon

    0—12

    7—45

    12—76

    76—150

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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

    10

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    1881

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    70

    1194

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    735

    Savage Pass

    SNOTEL
    Oi—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A—7 to 12 centimeters (2.8 to 4.7 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, dry; medial silt loam; 6 percent clay; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-75 millimeter gneiss fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N00580; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—12 to 34 centimeters (4.7 to 13.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) crushed, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dry; medial silt loam; 6 percent clay; weak fine single grain parts to weak fine granular; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-75 millimeter gneiss fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00581; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—34 to 45 centimeters (13.4 to 17.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; medial silt loam; 8 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-75 millimeter gneiss fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00582; observed in pit, small
    2Bw3—45 to 76 centimeters (17.7 to 29.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) interior, dry; gravelly loam; 8 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout; 0.1 very fine tubular pores; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-75 millimeter gneiss fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bt—76 to 150 centimeters (29.9 to 59.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, dry; extremely gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots between peds; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent distinct silt coats on surfaces along pores and 10 percent distinct silt coats on all faces of peds and 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-?-600 millimeter gneiss fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-?-250 millimeter gneiss fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-75 millimeter gneiss fragments.; observed in pit, small