IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MULSHOE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991ID063011
  • User Pedon ID: 91ID063011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991ID063011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0137
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64376
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 43.1894455
  • Std. Longitude: -114.0958328
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: South of Thorn Creek.
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID063—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 10A—Big and Little Wood River Footslopes and Plains (proposed)
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID681—Wood River Area, Idaho, Gooding County and Parts of Blaine, Lincoln, and Minidoka Counties

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Ultic Argixerolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - MULSHOE
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/2005
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mulshoe
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Ultic Argixeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/24/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from tuff and/or residuum weathered from tuff
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/24/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    ARVA2

    FEID

    PRUMU

    PUTR2

    Artemisia vaseyana

    Festuca idahoensis

    Prunus umbellata var. umbellata

    Purshia tridentata

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    Idaho fescue

    hog plum

    antelope bitterbrush

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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

    20

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    1695

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    0

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), black (10YR 2/1), moist; extremely bouldery sandy clay loam, extremely bouldery clay loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular and 21.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 medium tubular and 21.0 medium interstitial pores; 3 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 92P00935
    AB—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; very bouldery loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 3.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 medium tubular pores; 3 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P00936
    Bt—25 to 79 centimeters (9.8 to 31.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very stony clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 fine interstitial and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 92P00937
    BC—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist; very stony clay loam; massive; loose, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine tubular and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P00938
    R—97 centimeters (38.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.