IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Demasters
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 78-ALF-061
  • User Pedon ID: 78ID049039
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 78-ALF-061
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UIdaho
  • Lab Pedon # - 78-ID-25111
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36859
  • Print Date: 4/14/2025

    • 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: 45.6762352
  • Std. Longitude: -116.3991089
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4, SE 1/4
  • Location Description: Slate Creek Ranger District, Pittsburgh Saddle Area
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID049—Idaho
  • MLRA: 43C—Blue and Seven Devils Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID609—Nez Perce National Forest, Idaho
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45116-F4—Grave Point, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: NezPerce National Forest Service personnel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Demasters
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/17/2018
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 10/25/1978
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: basalt
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/25/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Douglas fir/Mallow ninebark/pinegrass
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CARU

    PHMA5

    PSME

    Calamagrostis rubescens

    Physocarpus malvaceus

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    pinegrass

    mallow ninebark

    Douglas-fir

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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

    60

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    1301

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    38

    525

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    71

    7.4

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    A—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 13 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ID251111
    AB—16 to 40 centimeters (6.3 to 15.7 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 coarse roots throughout; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ID251112
    Bw—40 to 81 centimeters (15.7 to 31.9 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ID251113
    C—81 to 130 centimeters (31.9 to 51.2 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; extremely cobbly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 28 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 70 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # ID251114
    R—130 centimeters (51.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # ID251115