IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zaza
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991ID069034
  • User Pedon ID: 91ID069034
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991ID069034
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P1099
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64135
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 46.1272240
  • Std. Longitude: -116.7102814
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 2600 feet S and 2300 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: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Lithic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 34
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Zaza
  • PSC - 0 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zaza
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Lithic Eutrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with 45 to <100
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/1991 (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

    POSE

    Poa secunda

    Sandberg bluegrass

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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—5

    5—36

    36—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

    9

    76

    30.5

    1416

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    200

    711

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    7.8

    15.6

    2.2

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) crushed, dry; very gravelly loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P07199; dry when described;
    Bw—5 to 36 centimeters (2.0 to 14.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, dry; extremely cobbly loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots around fragments; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 50 percent by volume angular 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 91P07200; dry when described;
    R—36 centimeters (14.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 91P07201