IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bluehill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981ID031002
  • User Pedon ID: 81ID031002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0575
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49419
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 42.0513878
  • Std. Longitude: -113.9752808
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16S
  • Range: 21E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet W and 1500 feet S of NE corner
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID031—Cassia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. R. Kukachka
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy, mesic Vitrandic Xerochrepts
  • 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 - Bluehill
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bluehill
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy, mesic Typic Vitrandept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    48

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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03410. Surafce 1/4 to 1/2 inch weak platy structure. About 5% surface coarse fragments less than 8 cm.; common very fine roots
    1B2—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; very fine sandy loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03411. 5-15% gravels (about 5% less than 3/8). ; common very fine roots; few fine roots
    1C1ca—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P03413. Roots between plates which have been fractured. 5-15% gravels (about 5% less than 3/8). About 55% ash fragments 1/2-6 inches across fragments lime coated on all surfaces soil material eo.; common very fine roots
    1C2ca—33 to 76 centimeters (13.0 to 29.9 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior, 2.5Y 7/0 (2.5Y 7/0) interior and very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.9, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 81P03414. Roots between plates which have been fractured. Pockets of soil material were described - 85-95% weakly consolidated ash plates, lime coatings on all surfaces - plates 3 to 10 cm thick.; common very fine roots
    1Cr—76 centimeters (29.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 81P03415. Weakly consolidated volcanic ash.