IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brownlee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991ID015002
  • User Pedon ID: 91ID015002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991ID015002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0214
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64453
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 44.0741653
  • Std. Longitude: -116.1669464
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: NW/SE
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID015—Boise

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ALH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brownlee
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brownlee
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Argixeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1991
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1991 (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

    ARTRX

    POSA

    SIHY

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. xericensis

    Poa saltuensis

    Sitanion hystrix

    big sagebrush

    oldpasture bluegrass

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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

    15

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    1135

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    135

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P01413. few medium roots; many very fine and fine roots
    AB—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 55 percent clay films on nodules; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P01413. many clay films surface features on nodules; few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bt1—30 to 66 centimeters (11.8 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 55 percent clay films on bottoms of plates; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P01414. many clay films surface features on bottoms of plates; few very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    Bt2—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 55 percent , moist, clay films on bottoms of plates; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P01414. many clay films surface features on bottoms of plates; few very fine and fine roots
    Bt3—97 to 127 centimeters (38.2 to 50.0 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; sandy clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 55 percent , moist, clay films on nodules; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. many clay films surface features on nodules; few fine roots
    R—127 centimeters (50.0 inches); fragments. slightly weathered granite that can be dug with difficulty