IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Watercanyon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986ID005002
  • User Pedon ID: 86ID005002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0920
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59214
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 42.8979683
  • Std. Longitude: -112.3611145
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 35E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 450 feet W and 2400 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 #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Watercanyon
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • 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 - 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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—13

    13—107

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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

    8

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    1616

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    180

    33

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    1Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 13 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 5.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05539. many very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Ap2—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 13 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine continuous tubular and 5.5 fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05540. many very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bk1—13 to 17 centimeters (5.1 to 6.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 12 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots top of horizon; 5.5 very fine continuous tubular and 5.5 fine continuous tubular pores; 11 percent very coarse cylindrical insect casts; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05541. Root mat and O.M. layered at top of horizon.; common very coarse insects casts concentrations; common very fine roots in mat at top of horizon; effervescence is continuous
    1Bk2—17 to 23 centimeters (6.7 to 9.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 11 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine continuous tubular and 2.5 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; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05542. many very coarse insects casts concentrations; common lime or carbonate coats surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 221161; patchy - phpvsfiid 221161
    1Bk3—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 11 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine continuous tubular and 2.5 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 # 86P05543. many very coarse insects casts concentrations; common lime or carbonate coats surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 221162; patchy - phpvsfiid 221162
    1Bk4—48 to 84 centimeters (18.9 to 33.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 11 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; 15 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 wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05544. many very coarse insects casts concentrations; few lime or carbonate coats surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 231772; patchy - phpvsfiid 231772
    1Bk5—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 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; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine continuous tubular and 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 1 percent very coarse cylindrical insect casts; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05545. few very coarse insects casts concentrations; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1C—107 to 165 centimeters (42.1 to 65.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 8 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 86P05546. few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous