IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leatherman
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988ID037003
  • User Pedon ID: 88ID037003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988ID037003
  • User Site Association ID: ID703_DSM_pedonsID703_DSM_p2_pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0847
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60965
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 44.3377762
  • Std. Longitude: -113.7797241
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID037—Custer
  • MLRA: 12—Lost River Valleys and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Karl Hipple
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, shallow Duric Xeric Petrocryids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leatherman
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Leatherman
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, frigid, shallow Xeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1988 (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

    PONE3

    Agropyron spicatum

    Artemisia arbuscula

    Poa nevadensis

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    little sagebrush

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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

    1

    —

    —

    2042

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    45

    23

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    3

    4

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly loam; weak very fine platy structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 5.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04457. few medium roots; many fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    Bk1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 5.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04458. Lime coats < 1 mm undersides of coarse fragments.; few medium roots; many fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    Bk2—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04459. Lime and minor silica coating 1 mm undersides and some sides of coarse fragments; few medium roots; many very fine and fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    2Bqkm—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) and brown (7.5YR 5/4), light gray (10YR 7/1) and pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), dry; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04460. Opaline pan cap—continuous laminar cap approximately 1 mm thick with root mat on top. Material under laminar cap is strongly cemented with pockets of weak and moderate cement 10-15 percent is weaker than strognly cemented.; effervescence is continuous
    2Bqk1—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; extremely gravelly loamy sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 medium and coarse interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04461. Silica and lime coatings and pendant undersides and sides of coarse fragments weakly cementing coarse fragments together.; effervescence is continuous
    2Bqk2—69 to 97 centimeters (27.2 to 38.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 medium and coarse interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04462. Silica and lime coatings and pendants undersides and sides of coarse fragments weakly cementing coarse fragments together. Sand grains are (10YR 3/1); effervescence is continuous
    2Bqk3—97 to 160 centimeters (38.2 to 63.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 medium and coarse interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 88P04463. Silica pendants undersides and sides of coarse fragments (2-5 mm thick) weakly cemented coarse fragments together—lens of pretty clear gravels which form fragmental pockets and lenses on part of pit, some lime coats. Sand grainsa re (10Y; effervescence is continuous