IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cramont
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988ID061004
  • User Pedon ID: 88ID061004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988ID061004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0185
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61289
  • Print Date: 1/25/2025

    • 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: 46.0777779
  • Std. Longitude: -116.5761108
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: At SW corner
  • Location Description: Lewis County, ID.
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID061—Lewis

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Hahn
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cramont
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Ultic Haploxerolls
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1988 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABGR

    CLUN

    PIPO

    Abies grandis

    Clarkia unguiculata

    Pinus ponderosa

    grand fir

    elegant clarkia

    ponderosa pine

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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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    1350

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    270

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. many very fine and fine roots
    E—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. has very noticeable amount of medium sand - not pure loess; many very fine and fine roots
    Bt1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; strong fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent skeletans; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. horizon is transitional between E and strong Bt; 10% pockets of E material; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; many skeletans (sand or silt) surface features; many very fine and fine roots
    Bt2—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay; weak medium prismatic, and strong medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 37 percent skeletans and 55 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P01154. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common skeletans (sand or silt) surface features; few very fine roots
    Bt3—61 to 112 centimeters (24.0 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist; silty clay; weak medium prismatic, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 55 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. skeletans along some prism faces; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots
    2Cr—112 centimeters (44.1 inches); fragments. weathered basalt, can auger into this