IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Atom
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990ID011006
  • User Pedon ID: 90ID011006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1990ID011006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0164
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67182
  • 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: 43.4991684
  • Std. Longitude: -112.7152786
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 32E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet east, 2400 feet north of southwest
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID011—Bingham
  • MLRA: 11—Snake River Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID763—Butte County Area, Idaho, Parts of Butte and Bingham Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Chad McGrath and Darwin Jeppesen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Sodic Xeric Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Atom
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Atom
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Xeric Haplocalcid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/1994
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3-24-24
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGSP

    ARTRW

    Agropyron spicatum

    Artemisia tridentata var. wyomingensis

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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

    3

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    1611

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    180

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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; silt loam; moderate very fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 21.0 fine vesicular pores; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P01108
    Bw—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P01109
    Bk1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P01110. lime veins, 2d lime coats on ped faces.
    Bk2—33 to 74 centimeters (13.0 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium and coarse platy structure; hard, very friable; 0.5 very fine to medium roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P01111. 10% cicada krotovina.
    Bk3—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P01112
    2Bk4—99 to 137 centimeters (39.0 to 53.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P01113
    2Bk5—137 to 170 centimeters (53.9 to 66.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), very pale brown (10YR 8/3), dry; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 95P01114