IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nez Perce
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985ID069006
  • User Pedon ID: 85ID069006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0984
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57250
  • 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: 46.2486115
  • Std. Longitude: -116.8611145
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 482 meters S and 640 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, smectitic, mesic Xeric Argialbolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nez Perce
  • PSC - 48 to 79 cm.
  • 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 - 9/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately 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

    paralithic contact

    argillic horizon

    0—37

    37—48

    48—79

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    —-

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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

    2

    —

    —

    904

    —

    135

    51

    —

    —

    8

    16

    1

    9

    17

    4

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    1Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P05339; moist when described;. many very fine roots throughout
    1A—23 to 37 centimeters (9.1 to 14.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05340; moist when described;. many very fine roots throughout
    1E—37 to 48 centimeters (14.6 to 18.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct , moist, skeletans on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05341; moist when described;. few skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on faces of peds; many very fine roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 231127; patchy - phpvsfiid 231127
    1Bt1—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silty clay; 42 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and strong medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent distinct , moist, skeletans on vertical faces of peds and 55 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05342; moist when described;. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; many skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on vertical faces of peds; common very fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231128; continuous - phpvsfiid 219573; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231128; continuous - phpvsfiid 219573
    1Bt2—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; silty clay; 37 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and strong medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 85P05343; moist when described;. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219574; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219574
    1Bk1—79 to 103 centimeters (31.1 to 40.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct , moist, pressure faces throughout; 11 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 85P05344; moist when described;. common fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common pressure faces surface features throughout; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219575; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219575
    1Bk2—103 to 122 centimeters (40.6 to 48.0 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 40 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), 60 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and 40 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 85P05345; moist when described;. White material contains some sand-size durinodes and lime concretions.; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Btkb1—122 to 145 centimeters (48.0 to 57.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silty clay loam; 37 percent clay; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium platy, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds and 37 percent distinct , moist, pressure faces throughout; 30 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05346; moist when described;. many fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common pressure faces surface features throughout; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219576; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219577; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219576; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219577
    1Btkb2—145 to 170 centimeters (57.1 to 66.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silty clay; 42 percent clay; weak medium prismatic, and strong medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct , moist, pressure faces throughout and 55 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 85P05347; moist when described;. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common pressure faces surface features throughout; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219578; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219579; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219578; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219579