IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): COSER
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982ID073001
  • User Pedon ID: 82ID073001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1982ID073001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0754
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51541
  • 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: 43.1244431
  • Std. Longitude: -116.7252808
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: No legal description
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID073—Owyhee
  • MLRA: 25—Owyhee High Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID675—Owyhee County Area, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: GHL and FMK
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic Calcic Argixerolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - COSER
  • Classificaton Date - 11/5/2004
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Not Designated
  • Classificaton Date - 7/26/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: hillslope alluvium and/or residuum weathered from basalt
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/26/1982 (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

    ARAR8

    CHRYS9

    POA

    Artemisia arbuscula

    Chrysothamnus

    Poa

    little sagebrush

    rabbitbrush

    bluegrass

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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

    7

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    A1—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; 21 percent clay; weak fine platy, and weak medium platy, and moderate fine granular, and moderate very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P03871; dry when described;
    Bt1—9 to 22 centimeters (3.5 to 8.7 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03872; moist when described;
    Bt2—22 to 33 centimeters (8.7 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face and dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed, moist; clay; 48 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium prismatic structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03873; moist when described;
    Bt3—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) broken face and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) rubbed and 10YR 2/4 (10YR 2/4) broken face, moist; clay; 52 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P03874; moist when described;
    Bk—48 to 96 centimeters (18.9 to 37.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) broken face and light gray (10YR 7/2) broken face clay loam; massive; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 25 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03876; moist when described;. Strongly wheathered rock with some soil material less than 5% which can be textured. Split for sampling: 48-68 cm depth.
    Cr—96 to 138 centimeters (37.8 to 54.3 inches); massive; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 82P03877; moist when described;. Rock structure, moderately wheathered bedrock. Basalt is highly vesicular.