IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Calouse
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985ID069005
  • User Pedon ID: 85ID069005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0983
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57249
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 46.3250008
  • Std. Longitude: -116.9472198
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 229 meters S and 375 meters W of NE corner
  • Location Description: Nez Perce County, Idaho.
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID069—Nez Perce
  • MLRA: 9—Palouse and Nez Perce Prairies

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Hahn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Calcic Pachic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Calouse
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Calouse
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Calcic Pachic Haploxeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—23

    39—57

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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

    5

    —

    —

    599

    —

    0

    36

    —

    —

    11

    22

    2

    11

    19

    4

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    1Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; 17 percent clay; moderate coarse granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P05331; moist when described;. many very fine roots throughout
    1BA—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; 19 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 2 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05332; dry when described;. very few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231126; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231126
    1Bw1—41 to 60 centimeters (16.1 to 23.6 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; 16 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05333; dry when described;. common very fine roots throughout
    1Bw2—60 to 81 centimeters (23.6 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 15 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05334; dry when described;. common very fine roots throughout
    1Bk1—81 to 100 centimeters (31.9 to 39.4 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 14 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 85P05335; dry when described;. few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bk2—100 to 145 centimeters (39.4 to 57.1 inches); 60 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) and 40 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, 60 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 12 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, weakly cemented by carbonates and silica, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent extremely coarse platy durinodes; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05336; dry when described;. few extremely coarse durinodes concentrations; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bk3—145 to 172 centimeters (57.1 to 67.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; 12 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent extremely coarse platy durinodes; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 85P05337; dry when described;. Common cicada nodules.; few extremely coarse durinodes concentrations; effervescence is continuous