IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Watercanyon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986ID005001
  • User Pedon ID: 86ID005001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986ID005001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0919
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59213
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 42.8976898
  • Std. Longitude: -112.3605576
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 35E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet W and 2300 feet N of SE corner
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID005—Bannock
  • MLRA: 13—Eastern Idaho Plateaus

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Chad McGrath
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Calcixerollic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Watercanyon
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Watercanyon
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, frigid Calcixerollic Xerochre
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARVA2

    ELCI2

    STCO4

    Artemisia vaseyana

    Elymus cinereus

    Stipa comata

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—20

    20—63

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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

    12

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    1616

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    180

    33

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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 12 percent clay; weak coarse platy, and weak medium granular, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 5.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 5.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05533. many medium and coarse roots throughout; many very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bw—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 13 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 5.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 5.5 very fine continuous tubular and 5.5 fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05534. many medium and coarse roots throughout; many very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bk1—20 to 47 centimeters (7.9 to 18.5 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 12 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 5.5 very fine continuous tubular and 5.5 fine continuous tubular pores; 37 percent white (10YR 8/1) carbonate coats on faces of peds; 30 percent very coarse cylindrical insect casts; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05535. many very coarse insects casts concentrations; common lime or carbonate coats surface features on faces of peds; common medium and coarse roots throughout; many very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 221159; patchy - phpvsfiid 221159
    1Bk2—47 to 63 centimeters (18.5 to 24.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 12 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 5.5 very fine continuous tubular and 5.5 fine continuous tubular pores; 37 percent white (10YR 8/1) carbonate coats on faces of peds; 30 percent very coarse cylindrical insect casts; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 86P05536. many very coarse insects casts concentrations; common lime or carbonate coats surface features on faces of peds; few medium roots throughout; many very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 221160; patchy - phpvsfiid 221160
    1Bk3—63 to 130 centimeters (24.8 to 51.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 9 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 2.5 very fine continuous tubular and 2.5 fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05537. few medium roots throughout; common very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1C—130 to 163 centimeters (51.2 to 64.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 8 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 86P05538. few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous