IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): TOWNSHIP-LIKE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999ID035004
  • User Pedon ID: 99ID035004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999ID035004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0547
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11406
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 46.7641678
  • Std. Longitude: -115.8386078
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet N and 2200 feet E of SW Corner
  • Location Description: west of Township Saddle on ridge top.
  • Map Unit: 70—Elkberry-Elkberry, wet complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID035—Clearwater
  • MLRA: 43—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Regional Office: NW—Northwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-MOS—Moscow, Idaho
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID612—Clearwater Area, Idaho
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46115-G7—Bertha Hill, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ER, GH, BG, CO, EH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, micaceous, frigid Andic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Township
  • PSC - 28 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/23/2016
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Township
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy/Loamy M/MF Alfic Udivitrand
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/1999
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over residuum weathered from mica schist
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN545 - western redcedar/wild ginger—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    HODI

    PAMY

    PSMEG

    PTAQ

    SALIX

    SYAL

    THPL

    Holodiscus discolor

    Paxistima myrsinites

    Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca

    Pteridium aquilinum

    Salix

    Symphoricarpos albus

    Thuja plicata

    oceanspray

    Oregon boxleaf

    Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir

    western brackenfern

    willow

    common snowberry

    western redcedar

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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

    22

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    1388

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    205

    1245

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    80

    6.7

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments; clear smooth boundary. decomposing grass and leaves; sieve would help textures.
    A—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; ashy silt loam; 8 percent clay; fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 2.0 medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 5 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03836
    Bw—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; gravelly ashy silt loam; 8 percent clay; fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 2.0 medium and coarse roots; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 5 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03837
    2Bt1—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine to medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 2.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 2 percent faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; 30 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 99P03838. zone of mixing.
    2Bt2—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) very gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; fine and medium subangular blocky, and fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium and coarse roots; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 1.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; 45 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03839
    2Bt3—79 to 86 centimeters (31.1 to 33.9 inches); 80 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 20 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 1.0 medium tubular pores; 2 percent faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; 45 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 99P03840
    2Bt4—86 to 99 centimeters (33.9 to 39.0 inches); 75 percent reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) and 25 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) very gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; fine subangular blocky, and single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots; 2.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 2 percent faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; 25 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified and 10 percent medium platy mica flakes, unspecified; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 99P03841. broken horizon - small band in several places, but mostly pocket quartz rich rock fragments with some schist.
    2Bt5—99 to 109 centimeters (39.0 to 42.9 inches); 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 50 percent red (2.5YR 5/8) gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; 35 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified and 10 percent medium platy mica flakes, unspecified; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03842
    2C1—109 to 135 centimeters (42.9 to 53.1 inches); 30 percent red (2.5YR 5/6) and 70 percent red (2.5YR 5/8) extremely gravelly loam; 10 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine and fine roots; 1.0 very fine interstitial pores; 1 percent faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; 20 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified and 30 percent medium platy mica flakes, unspecified; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03843
    2C2—135 to 158 centimeters (53.1 to 62.2 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) extremely gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine and fine roots; 1 percent distinct clay films; 20 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified and 35 percent medium platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03844
    2C3—158 to 173 centimeters (62.2 to 68.1 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) extremely gravelly loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine and fine roots; 1 percent distinct clay films; 20 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified and 35 percent medium platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter. Lab sample # 99P03845
    2R—173 centimeters (68.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Schist Rock.