IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): OXHEAD
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982ID059002
  • User Pedon ID: 82ID059002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1982ID059002
  • User Site Association ID: ID703_DSM_pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0684
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51471
  • Print Date: 11/13/2025

    • 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: 44.5783348
  • Std. Longitude: -113.2847214
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 27E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: North end of Center Ridge and Oxbow road
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID059—Lemhi
  • MLRA: 12—Lost River Valleys and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID752—Custer-Lemhi Area, Idaho, Parts of Blaine, Custer, and Lemhi Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Karl Hipple
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy, glassy, frigid Vitrixerandic Haplocalcids
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - OXHEAD
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/4/2004
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oxhead
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Durixerollic Calciorth
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/27/1981
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lacustrine deposits
  • Landform: ridge
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent 2- to 5-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/27/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    AGSP

    ARTRW8

    Agropyron spicatum

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

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    Wyoming big sagebrush

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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

    3

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    1875

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    68

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; 19 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P03610
    Bw—8 to 22 centimeters (3.1 to 8.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03611
    Bk1—22 to 34 centimeters (8.7 to 13.4 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P03612
    Bk2—34 to 52 centimeters (13.4 to 20.5 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; gravelly loam; 10 percent clay; massive; hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03613. Almost a platy structure. Roots tend to run horizontally along top of this horizon; many coarse fragments.
    Bk3—52 to 75 centimeters (20.5 to 29.5 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; loam; 17 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P03614
    Bk4—75 to 140 centimeters (29.5 to 55.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), 10YR 5/5 (10YR 5/5), moist; very fine sandy loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03615. Split for sampling: 90-92cm depth. Horizon has properties of duripan slightly hard except for structure, it is very compact. Continuous root mat 90cm which stops 75% of roots, laminar cap 2mm thick slice cemented.
    Bk5—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; loam; strong fine angular blocky, and strong very coarse platy structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03617
    Ck—152 to 190 centimeters (59.8 to 74.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; loam; massive; slightly hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 82P03618