IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chesley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 75-ALF-010
  • User Pedon ID: 75ID009003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 75-ALF-010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UIdaho
  • Lab Pedon # - 75-ID-0570
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79971
  • Print Date: 5/5/2025

    • 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: 47.0445000
  • Std. Longitude: -116.7505000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 43N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4
  • Location Description: 13 miles north of Harvard, Idaho, along Meadow Creek; Meadow Creek site no. 33
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID009—Benewah
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Regional Office: NW—Northwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-MOS—Moscow, Idaho
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID608—St. Joe Area, Idaho, Parts of Benewah and Shoshone Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47116-A7—Sanders, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Harold Brown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy over loamy, amorphic over mixed, active, frigid Typic Udivitrands
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.1B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chesley
  • PSC - 4 to 104 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/18/2018
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash and loess over siltites of the Libby Formation
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, lower third
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN530 - western redcedar/queencup beadlily—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Oi

    Bw1

    Bw2

    2Eb

    2Btb

    0

    4

    17

    42

    50

    4

    17

    42

    50

    103

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Oi

    Bw1

    Bw2

    2Eb

    2Btb

    0

    4

    17

    42

    50

    4

    17

    42

    50

    103

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Oi

    Bw1

    Bw2

    2Eb

    2Btb

    0

    4

    17

    42

    50

    4

    17

    42

    50

    103

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PAMY

    THPL

    Paxistima myrsinites

    Thuja plicata

    Oregon boxleaf

    western redcedar

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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

    50

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    930

    914

    180

    885

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    110

    7

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    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ID05701
    Bw1—4 to 17 centimeters (1.6 to 6.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; silt loam; 26 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many (6.0) very fine roots throughout and common (4.0) medium roots throughout and many (6.0) fine roots throughout and few (0.1) coarse roots throughout; many (6.0) very fine tubular and many (6.0) very fine interstitial and common (4.0) fine interstitial and common (4.0) fine tubular and many (6.0) fine tubular and many (6.0) fine interstitial pores; 12 percent by volume , 22 percent by weight 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ID05702
    Bw2—17 to 42 centimeters (6.7 to 16.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; 34 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many (6.0) very fine roots throughout and common (4.0) medium roots throughout and many (6.0) fine roots throughout and few (0.1) coarse roots throughout; many (6.0) very fine tubular and many (6.0) very fine tubular and common (4.0) medium interstitial and common (4.0) medium tubular and many (6.0) fine interstitial and many (6.0) fine interstitial pores; 9 percent by volume , 16 percent by weight 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ID05703
    2Eb—42 to 50 centimeters (16.5 to 19.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; 20 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 18 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many (6.0) very fine roots throughout and common (4.0) medium roots throughout and many (6.0) fine roots throughout; many (6.0) very fine and few (0.1) medium and many (6.0) fine pores; 9 percent by volume , 17 percent by weight 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ID05704
    2Btb—50 to 103 centimeters (19.7 to 40.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; 22 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 18 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout and common (4.0) medium roots throughout and common (4.0) fine roots throughout; many (6.0) very fine and common (4.0) medium and many (6.0) fine pores; 6 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 6 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 14 percent by volume , 24 percent by weight 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # ID05705