IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sly
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 75-ALF-006
  • User Pedon ID: 75ID079003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 75-ALF-006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UIdaho
  • Lab Pedon # - 75-ID-4089
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79998
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 47.3002000
  • Std. Longitude: -116.2928000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 46N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4, SE 1/4
  • Location Description: four miles east of Old St. Joe City, Idaho; St. Joe, sites no. 18 and 24
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID079—Shoshone
  • 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-C3—Saint Joe, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Harold Brown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, frigid Vitrandic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.1B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sly
  • PSC - 29 to 79 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: loess over basalt of the Columbia River Formation
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Drainage Class: moderately 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

    A

    AB

    Bt1

    Bt2

    Bt3

    Bt4

    0

    4

    14

    29

    50

    72

    98

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    29

    50

    72

    98

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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

    A

    AB

    Bt1

    Bt2

    Bt3

    Bt4

    0

    4

    14

    29

    50

    72

    98

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    29

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    72

    98

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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

    A

    AB

    Bt1

    Bt2

    Bt3

    Bt4

    0

    4

    14

    29

    50

    72

    98

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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

    15

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    889

    918

    270

    830

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    6.9

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    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ID40891
    A—4 to 14 centimeters (1.6 to 5.5 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dry; clay loam; 26 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 38 percent clay; weak medium granular, and moderate fine granular structure; very hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many (6.0) very fine roots throughout and common (4.0) medium roots throughout and common (4.0) fine roots throughout and few (0.3) coarse roots throughout; many (6.0) very fine interstitial and many (6.0) fine interstitial pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ID40892
    AB—14 to 29 centimeters (5.5 to 11.4 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dry; clay; 28 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 40 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; very hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many (6.0) very fine roots throughout and common (4.0) medium roots throughout and common (4.0) fine roots throughout and few (0.3) coarse roots throughout; many (6.0) very fine interstitial and many (6.0) fine interstitial pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ID40893
    Bt1—29 to 50 centimeters (11.4 to 19.7 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dry; clay; 18 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 44 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many (6.0) very fine roots throughout and common (4.0) medium roots throughout and many (6.0) fine roots throughout and few (0.2) coarse roots throughout; 6.0 very fine interstitial and 6.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ID40894
    Bt2—50 to 72 centimeters (19.7 to 28.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; clay; 26 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 48 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; few (0.2) very fine roots throughout and few (0.2) medium roots throughout and few (0.2) fine roots throughout; many (6.0) very fine tubular and many (6.0) very fine interstitial and many (6.0) fine tubular and many (6.0) fine interstitial pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # ID40895
    Bt3—72 to 98 centimeters (28.3 to 38.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; clay; 26 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 50 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; few (0.1) very fine roots throughout and few (0.1) fine roots throughout; many (6.0) very fine tubular and many (6.0) very fine interstitial and few (6.0) fine tubular and many (6.0) fine interstitial pores; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ID40896
    Bt4—98 centimeters (38.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; clay; 14 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 62 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; few (0.1) very fine roots throughout and few (0.1) fine roots throughout; many (6.0) very fine tubular and many (6.0) very fine interstitial and many (6.0) fine interstitial and many (6.0) fine tubular pores; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # ID40897