IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nicholia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988ID037001
  • User Pedon ID: 88ID037001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988ID037001
  • User Site Association ID: ID703_DSM_pedonsID703_DSM_p2_pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0845
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60963
  • Print Date: 12/12/2024

    • 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: 44.2152786
  • Std. Longitude: -113.4441681
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 25E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of NE 1/4
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID037—Custer
  • MLRA: 12—Lost River Valleys and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K. Hipple and D. Jeppesen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, carbonatic, shallow Duric Xeric Petrocryids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nicholia
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nicholia
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, carbonatic, frigid, shallow Xerollic Durort
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace—outwash or marine
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microdepression
  • Microrelief Elevation: 35
  • 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

    AGSP

    ARAR8

    POSE

    Agropyron spicatum

    Artemisia arbuscula

    Poa secunda

    —

    little sagebrush

    Sandberg bluegrass

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

    calcic horizon

    ochric epipedon

    duripan

    0—0

    0—0

    0—0

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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

    —

    —

    2225

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    45

    23

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    3

    4

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly loam; weak fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04437. common medium roots; many very fine and fine roots
    Bk1—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 11 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04438. common medium roots; many very fine and fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    Bkq1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 11 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04439. common medium roots; many very fine and fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    Bkq2—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 9 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04440. common very fine and fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    Bqkm—36 to 79 centimeters (14.2 to 31.1 inches); massive; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04441. effervescence is continuous
    Bqk—79 to 152 centimeters (31.1 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loamy sand; massive; hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P04442. effervescence is continuous