IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Meland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979ID003001
  • User Pedon ID: 79ID003001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0436
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47169
  • 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: 44.7168590
  • Std. Longitude: -116.4490140
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 531 meters E and 15 meters N of SW corner
  • Location Description: SW of Council less than 1 km.
  • Map Unit: 137—Meland-Riggins complex, 4 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID003—Adams
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID656—Adams-Washington Area, Parts of Adams and Washington Counties, Idaho
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44116-F4—Council, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G.H.L., L.M.R., D.L.M., S.H., K.W.H., M.A.F.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Meland
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/15/2018
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mehlhorn
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Argixeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1979
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: unconsolidated sediments derived from basalt
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    3

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    894

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    90

    585

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    125

    9.1

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    9.6

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine platy, and moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02362. common very fine roots; few fine and medium roots
    A2—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, moist; loam; 33 percent clay; weak coarse platy, and moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02363. many very fine and fine roots
    Bt1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, moist; loam; 33 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 5.5 fine tubular pores; clay films on nodules and clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P02364. many very fine and fine roots
    Bt2—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, moist; gravelly clay loam; 33 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 5.5 fine tubular pores; clay films on nodules and clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 18 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P02365. Gravels and cobbles are rounded.; many very fine and fine roots
    Bt3—56 to 64 centimeters (22.0 to 25.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, moist; very gravelly clay loam; 37 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 5.5 fine tubular pores; clay films on nodules and clay films on faces of peds and clay films in root channels and/or pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P02366. Gravel and cabbles are rounded and angular.; many very fine roots; few fine roots
    Cr—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 79P02367. Decomposed basalt.
    R—87 centimeters (34.3 inches); bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. Basalt bedrock.