IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chesley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 79-ALF-017
  • User Pedon ID: 79ID009001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 79-ALF-017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UIdaho
  • Lab Pedon # - 79-ID-18117
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36801
  • 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: 47.0368881
  • Std. Longitude: -116.8279724
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 43N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4, SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Palouse Ranger District, landform 24; 010303R-1; Crane Point
  • Map Unit: 39—Honeyjones ashy silt loam, very rocky, 35 to 75 percent slopes
  • 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: Randy Moiser
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy over loamy, amorphic over mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Udivitrands
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chesley
  • PSC - 8 to 108 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/7/2013
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxonomic Class - Inceptisols
  • Classificaton Date - 6/22/1978
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over loess and residuum weathered from siltite
  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: at 115cm
  • 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: 6/22/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Western redcedar/Pachystima
  • 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

    ABGR

    CHUM

    CLUN2

    LINNA

    PAMY

    PIMO3

    THPL

    VIOLA

    Abies grandis

    Chimaphila umbellata

    Clintonia uniflora

    Linnaea

    Paxistima myrsinites

    Pinus monticola

    Thuja plicata

    Viola

    grand fir

    pipsissewa

    bride's bonnet

    twinflower

    Oregon boxleaf

    western white pine

    western redcedar

    violet

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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

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—8

    8—59

    8—92

    59—

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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

    23

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    1106

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    890

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    Oi—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # ID181171
    Bw1—8 to 59 centimeters (3.1 to 23.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ashy silt loam; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # ID181172
    2Bw2—59 to 69 centimeters (23.2 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # ID181173
    2Bw3—69 to 92 centimeters (27.2 to 36.2 inches); light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/4) gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # ID181174
    2C—92 centimeters (36.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) very gravelly silt loam; massive; extremely firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 50 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # ID181175