IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Watercanyon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989ID007001
  • User Pedon ID: 89ID007001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0111
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61215
  • 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: 42.2716675
  • Std. Longitude: -111.2427750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 45E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 1250 feet E and 450 feet N of SW corner
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID007—Bear Lake

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Pam Keller
  • 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 #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Watercanyon
  • 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 - 11/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: playa or alluvial flat
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1989 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    15

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    1911

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    45

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P00949. common very fine and fine roots
    A2—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P00950. common very fine and fine roots
    Bk1—28 to 58 centimeters (11.0 to 22.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00951. common very fine roots
    Bk2—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00952. common very fine roots
    Bk3—81 to 117 centimeters (31.9 to 46.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P00953. few very fine roots
    C—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 89P00954. few very fine roots