IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970ID009001
  • User Pedon ID: 70ID009001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1970ID009001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 70C0010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43791
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 47.1775017
  • Std. Longitude: -116.8047256
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 44N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: The site is 15 meters (50 feet) southwest of 1/4 corner in the northwest 1/4
  • Location Description: 11 meters southwest of old Shoefeller site
  • Map Unit: 791—Latour gravelly medial silt loam, 35 to 75 percent slopes
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID009—Benewah
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID608—St. Joe Area, Idaho, Parts of Benewah and Shoshone Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47116-B7—Benewah, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. J. Leighty
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic Andic Dystrocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vay
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/14/2013
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shoeffler
  • Classificaton Date - 7/22/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over residuum weathered from quartzite
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN635 - subalpine fir/twistedstalk—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/22/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: EFH-IV-17
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    ABGR

    ABLA

    LAOC

    PIEN

    PIMO3

    PSMEG

    SMRA

    STAM2

    THOC

    VACCI

    Abies grandis

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Larix occidentalis

    Picea engelmannii

    Pinus monticola

    Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca

    Smilacina racemosa

    Streptopus amplexifolius

    Thalictrum occidentale

    Vaccinium

    grand fir

    subalpine fir

    western larch

    Engelmann spruce

    western white pine

    Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir

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    claspleaf twistedstalk

    western meadow-rue

    blueberry

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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

    0—13

    3—33

    13—64

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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

    42

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    1372

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    45

    1270

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    3

    7

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    6

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, cresol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 70C00058; moist when described;
    A—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry; medial silt loam; 3 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 70C00059; moist when described;
    Bw1—13 to 26 centimeters (5.1 to 10.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; medial silt loam; 3 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 70C00060; moist when described;
    Bw2—26 to 33 centimeters (10.2 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; 4 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 21.0 medium and coarse roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 70C00061; moist when described;
    2Bw3—33 to 64 centimeters (13.0 to 25.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; very cobbly silt loam; 8 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium and coarse roots; 3.0 medium tubular and 21.0 fine pores; 25 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 70C00062; moist when described;
    2C—64 to 104 centimeters (25.2 to 40.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; extremely cobbly coarse sandy loam; 4 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 30 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 70C00063; moist when described;