IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kucera
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983ID043003
  • User Pedon ID: 83ID043003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0864
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53645
  • 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: 44.0141678
  • Std. Longitude: -111.4683304
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 42E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 913 meters W and 183 meters N of the SE corner of the SE 1/4
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID043—Fremont
  • MLRA: 13—Eastern Idaho Plateaus
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID762—Fremont County, Idaho, Western Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Grow
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Calcic Pachic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kucera
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kucera
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, frigid Calcic Pachic Haploxer
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1983 (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
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    1614

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    270

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    1Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; 8 percent clay; moderate coarse platy structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04363. few very fine roots
    1Bt1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium prismatic, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04364. few very fine roots
    1Bt2—28 to 58 centimeters (11.0 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04365. Gopher holes.; few very fine roots
    1Bt3—58 to 97 centimeters (22.8 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04366. Krotivinas 15% and 2 to 5 inches in diameter. 3% worm casts.; few very fine roots
    1Bk1—97 to 112 centimeters (38.2 to 44.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, moist; loam; 10 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04367. 10% weakly cemented pan fragments.; few very fine roots
    1Bkq—112 to 127 centimeters (44.1 to 50.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, moist; unknown texture; strong medium platy structure; very hard, very firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04368. Pan structure.; few very fine roots
    1Bk2—127 to 155 centimeters (50.0 to 61.0 inches); 75 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior and 25 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, 75 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and 25 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, moist; gravelly loam; 6 percent clay; weak fine platy structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 83P04369. Lime is in horizontal plates.; few very fine roots