IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nez Perce
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985ID061065
  • User Pedon ID: 85ID061065
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0245
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58050
  • Print Date: 4/21/2025

    • 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: 46.2677765
  • Std. Longitude: -116.4300003
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 35 feet N and 120 feet E of SW corner
  • Location Description: Wagner Farms.
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID061—Lewis

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Xeric Argialbolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 65
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nez Perce
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nez Perce
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Xeric Argialboll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1985 (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
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    1Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak coarse platy, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01424. few very fine roots
    1E1—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01425. few very fine roots
    1E2—30 to 36 centimeters (11.8 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01426. few very fine roots
    1Bt1—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; silty clay; 43 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 55 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01427. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots
    1Bt2—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; silty clay loam; 40 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 86P01428. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots
    1Btk1—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, dry; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak fine prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, hellige-truog; gradual irregular boundary. CaCO3 is concentrated in large splotches, but is also in matrix.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots
    1Btk2—102 to 224 centimeters (40.2 to 88.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, dry; silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog. CaCO3 is in veins as well as in matrix.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots