IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Maloney
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991ID069033
  • User Pedon ID: 91ID069033
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991ID069033
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P1098
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64134
  • 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: 46.1269455
  • Std. Longitude: -116.7099991
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 2600 feet S and 2170 feet W of NE corner
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID069—Nez Perce
  • MLRA: 43—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID611—Lewis and Nez Perce Counties, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Hahn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 33
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Maloney
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Maloney
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Xerochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/1991
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hillside
  • Microfeature: mound
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with 45 to <100
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/16/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 10
  • 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

    ACHIL

    DACA6

    FEID

    GEUM

    KOMA

    ROSA5

    Achillea

    Daucus carota

    Festuca idahoensis

    Geum

    Koeleria macrantha

    Rosa

    yarrow

    Queen Anne's lace

    Idaho fescue

    avens

    prairie Junegrass

    rose

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—13

    13—64

    64—0

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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

    4

    6

    3

    1416

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    200

    711

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    7.8

    15.6

    2.2

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, dry; gravelly loam; 22 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 25 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P07195; dry when described;. Gravel is mostly < 5mm.
    Bw1—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) crushed, dry; gravelly loam; 24 percent clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky, and strong coarse granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium interstitial and tubular pores; 20 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 91P07196; dry when described;. Gravel mostly < 5mm.
    Bw2—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) exterior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) exterior, dry; gravelly loam; 24 percent clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky parts to strong coarse granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium interstitial and tubular pores; 20 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P07197; dry when described;. Gravel mostly < 5mm.
    Bw3—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) exterior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) exterior, dry; gravelly loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium interstitial and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 91P07198; dry when described;. 10% of gravel is > 75mm.
    2R—64 centimeters (25.2 inches); fragments.