IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Simonton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988ID025025
  • User Pedon ID: 88ID025025
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0326
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60444
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 43.3655548
  • Std. Longitude: -114.6705551
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet E and 1000 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Bill Simons farm.
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID025—Camas

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Abruptic Durixeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 25
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Simonton
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Simonton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, frigid Ultic Palexeralf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1988 (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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    1Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, moist; loam; 26 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01687. few very fine and fine roots; few medium and coarse roots
    1Ap2—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, moist; clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01688. Roots concentrated on ped faces. Top of Bt has been mixed with this layer.; common very fine roots; few fine and medium roots
    1Bt1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, moist; clay; 48 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse prismatic, and strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P01689. Roots concentrated on ped faces. Some ped faces are coated with material from horizon above due to downward movement when cracks form between peds.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine and fine roots
    1Bt2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; clay; 43 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P01690. Roots concentrated on ped faces.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine roots
    1Bt3—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); 10YR 6/ (10YR 6/), interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; clay; 43 percent clay; weak fine and medium prismatic, and strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01691. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores
    1Bqm—66 to 107 centimeters (26.0 to 42.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; extremely hard, extremely firm*; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P01692. Matrix is eo, e on some ped faces and in some pores. Layer appears to be an old argillic horizon that has been cemented with silica structure appears to be prismatic and/or angular blocky but is indurated and difficult to break out in peds.
    1Bq—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; 21 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, weakly cemented; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P01693