IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fergie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991ID063302
  • User Pedon ID: 91ID063302
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991ID063302
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0115
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63162
  • Print Date: 11/25/2024

    • 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: 43.1813889
  • Std. Longitude: -115.0511093
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 2,000 feet west, 1,500 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: about 17 miles north of Bliss
  • 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

  • Describers Name: Mark Johnson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Ultic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 302
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fergie
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/13/2005
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dempsey
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1990 (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

    ACOCO

    DELPH

    ERIOG

    POA

    SECAL

    Achnatherum occidentale ssp. occidentale

    Delphinium

    Eriogonum

    Poa

    Secale

    western needlegrass

    larkspur

    buckwheat

    bluegrass

    rye

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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

    12

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    90

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium and coarse roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00651
    BA—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky parts to fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium and coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00652
    Bt1—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; very gravelly loam; fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00653. patchy - phpvsfiid 267252; patchy - phpvsfiid 267252
    Bt2—56 to 132 centimeters (22.0 to 52.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; extremely gravelly clay loam; fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 250-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00654. patchy - phpvsfiid 267253; patchy - phpvsfiid 267253
    R—132 centimeters (52.0 inches); fragments.