IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Robin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992ID011001D
  • User Pedon ID: 92ID011001D
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992ID011001D
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0052
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65396
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 43.0516663
  • Std. Longitude: -111.7777786
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Satellite D, J1 shrub site.
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID011—Bingham
  • MLRA: 13—Eastern Idaho Plateaus

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Michael Whited and John Warner
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Robin
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Cryic Pachic Paleborolls
  • Classificaton Date - 8/17/1992
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/17/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 104
  • Microrelief Elevation: 30
  • 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

    ARTRV

    CAFI

    POSE

    STLE4

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana

    Carex filifolia

    Poa secunda

    Stipa lettermanii

    mountain big sagebrush

    threadleaf sedge

    Sandberg bluegrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    0—70

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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

    8

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    1958

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    20

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    A1—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00404
    A2—4 to 30 centimeters (1.6 to 11.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P00405
    AB—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; distinct skeletans on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P00406. patchy - phpvsfiid 178053; patchy - phpvsfiid 178053
    Bw—48 to 70 centimeters (18.9 to 27.6 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; distinct skeletans on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P00407. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 178054; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 178054
    Bt—70 centimeters (27.6 inches); fragments.