IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hooverton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990ID061001
  • User Pedon ID: 90ID061001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1990ID061001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0111
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63158
  • Print Date: 12/18/2024

    • 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: 46.4472237
  • Std. Longitude: -116.3544464
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: SE/4
  • Location Description: 200 feet below ridge on D. Mossman Ranch
  • Map Unit: 66—Klickson-Hooverton association, 35 to 90 percent slopes
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID061—Lewis
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46116-D3—Orofino West, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Rust
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hooverton
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bluesprin
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Ultic Argixeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from basalt and/or loess derived from mixed
  • Landscape: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    BASA3

    FEID

    Agropyron spicatum

    Balsamorhiza sagittata

    Festuca idahoensis

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    arrowleaf balsamroot

    Idaho fescue

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

    natric horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    28—81

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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

    70

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    865

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    270

    745

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    140

    9.5

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) crushed, moist; gravelly silt loam; 23 percent clay; weak very fine and fine granular structure; soft, loose, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00637. common very fine and fine roots throughout
    BA—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; very gravelly silt loam; 27 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine granular, and moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00638. 7.5YR 3/3 is a more accurate color chip, but none available at this time for moist color; common fine and medium roots throughout
    Bt1—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) exterior, moist; very gravelly silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak very fine and fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots around fragments; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00639. common very fine and fine roots matted around stones; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226181; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226181
    Bt2—48 to 81 centimeters (18.9 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) exterior, moist; extremely gravelly silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 0.5 fine interstitial pores; distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00640. few fine roots in cracks; continuous - phpvsfiid 226182; continuous - phpvsfiid 226182
    R—81 centimeters (31.9 inches); fragments.