IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mellor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990ID071001
  • User Pedon ID: 90ID071001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1990ID071001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P1046
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62979
  • 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: 42.0116653
  • Std. Longitude: -112.7083359
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16S
  • Range: 32E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 1420 feet E and 1100 feet S, NW corner
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID071—Oneida
  • MLRA: 28A—Ancient Lake Bonneville

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rulan Winward
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Xerollic Natrargids
  • 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 #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mellor
  • PSC - 20 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Heydlauff
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Xerollic Haplargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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

    AGCR

    ARTR

    CHRYS9

    Agropyron cristatum

    Arisaema triphyllum

    Chrysothamnus

    crested wheatgrass

    Jack in the pulpit

    rabbitbrush

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

    argillic horizon

    20—38

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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

    0

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    1390

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    180

    25

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    9

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    8

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 24 percent clay; moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P06425. few medium and coarse roots throughout; many very fine and fine roots throughout
    A2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine platy, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P06426. common fine roots throughout; many very fine roots throughout
    Btn—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, phenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P06427. few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; common very fine and fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 226008; continuous - phpvsfiid 226008
    Btkn—28 to 33 centimeters (11.0 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, phenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P06428. common clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; common very fine and fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 226009; continuous - phpvsfiid 226009
    Bk1—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, phenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P06429. few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    Bk2—53 to 91 centimeters (20.9 to 35.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; silt loam; 22 percent clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine spherical lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, phenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P06430. common fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few very fine roots throughout; few fine distinct 10YR56 mottles; effervescence is continuous
    C1—91 to 119 centimeters (35.8 to 46.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; silt loam; 24 percent clay; 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; massive; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, phenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P06431. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; many fine prominent 10YR56 mottles; effervescence is continuous
    C2—119 to 157 centimeters (46.9 to 61.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; silt loam; 22 percent clay; 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; massive; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical lime masses; fragments, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, phenol red. Lab sample # 90P06432. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; many fine prominent 10YR56 mottles; effervescence is continuous