IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gaibson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991ID063301
  • User Pedon ID: 91ID063301
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991ID063301
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0114
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63161
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 43.1866684
  • Std. Longitude: -115.0130539
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: about 1500 feet west and 500 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Gooding County, Idaho; about 16 miles north of Bliss, Idaho.
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID047—Gooding
  • 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 Lithic Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 301
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gaibson
  • Classificaton Date - 4/13/2005
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gaibson
  • Classificaton Date - 4/5/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: fan terrace
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/5/1991 (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

    ARAR8

    Artemisia arbuscula

    little sagebrush

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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

    10

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    1584

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    225

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 0.5 fine and medium interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00647
    B1—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly loam; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00648
    B2—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6), moist; very gravelly loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine to coarse roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00649
    Bt—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; extremely gravelly clay loam; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 0.5 fine and medium interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00650
    R—48 centimeters (18.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.