IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chilcott
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985ID039100
  • User Pedon ID: 85ID039100
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0181
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59477
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 43.1166649
  • Std. Longitude: -115.3416672
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: NW quarter of NE quarter
  • Location Description: Elmore County, ID.
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID039—Elmore

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Maynard Fosberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Xerollic Durargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 100
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chilcott
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chilcott
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Abruptic Xerollic Du
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1985 (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

    1

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    1133

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    180

    25

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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silt loam; weak very fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 fine vesicular and tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00953. common very fine and fine roots
    1E—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silt loam; weak very fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00954. common very fine and fine roots
    1BA—18 to 31 centimeters (7.1 to 12.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silt loam; weak very fine prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine platy structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00955. common very fine and fine roots; common coarse roots
    1Bt1—31 to 46 centimeters (12.2 to 18.1 inches); 10YR 6/ (10YR 6/), interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak fine and medium prismatic, and strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 55 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 55 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00956. Few coarse pores caused by cicada larva.; many clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; many clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine and fine roots
    1Bt2—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 55 percent faint yellow (10YR 7/6) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 55 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00957. Few coarse pores caused by cicada larva.; many clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; many clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine roots
    1Bqkm—64 to 76 centimeters (25.2 to 29.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, moist; massive; extremely hard, very firm, strongly cemented; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00958. few clay films surface features on faces of peds
    1Bqkm2—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, moist; strong coarse and very coarse platy structure; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00959. Strongly cemented with silica, indurated, individual plates have smooth surface or plates with prominent pendants.
    1Bqkmz—107 to 140 centimeters (42.1 to 55.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, moist; moderate medium and coarse platy structure; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00960. Many very fine and fine pores within stalagtite growth; the surface of plates has a fine granular finish, underside very prominent porous stalagtite formations.
    1Bkz—140 to 165 centimeters (55.1 to 65.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/3) interior, moist; massive; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 87P00961. Very fine granular strongly cemented material.