IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Deshler
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979ID087002
  • User Pedon ID: 79ID087002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0434
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47167
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 44.3256260
  • Std. Longitude: -116.5829380
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 783 meters W and 49 meters N of the SE corner
  • Location Description: 32 km NE of Weiser
  • Map Unit: 58—Deshler-Devnot complex, 2 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID087—Washington
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44116-C5—Crane Creek Reservoir, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Deshler
  • PSC - 38 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Deshler
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Pachic Argixeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1979
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from basalt
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • 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 - crop cover
  • 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

    30

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    1139

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    250

    635

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    110

    8.8

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    —

    9.3

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine platy structure; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method. Lab sample # 79P02348
    A2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak fine platy, and weak coarse platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine and medium roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 tubular pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02349. many fine and medium roots
    AB—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; clay loam; 31 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02350. common fine and medium roots
    BAt—38 to 63 centimeters (15.0 to 24.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; clay loam; 33 percent clay; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02351. few very fine and fine roots
    Bt—63 to 76 centimeters (24.8 to 29.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; clay; 55 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; clay films on faces of peds and clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02352. few very fine and fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 1797170; continuous - phpvsfiid 1797171; continuous - phpvsfiid 1797170; continuous - phpvsfiid 1797171
    Cr—76 to 86 centimeters (29.9 to 33.9 inches); fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; fragments. Lab sample # 79P02353. Siltstone or micaceous semiconsolidated lacustrine sediments that may contain volcanic tuffaceous material.