IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: Lookout SNOTEL site #594
  • User Pedon ID: S06ID079003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: Lookout SNOTEL site #594
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0936
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18406
  • 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: 47.4575005
  • Std. Longitude: -115.7044449
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID079—Shoshone

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial over loamy-skeletal, amorphic over isotic Typic Haplocryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vay
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/24/2008
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vay
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial over loamy-skeletal, amorphic over isotic T
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 8/4/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over metasedimentary residuum
  • Landform: summit/shoulder mountain slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/4/2006 ()
  • 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

    ABLA

    COOC

    MEFE

    PIAL

    PICO

    PIEN

    PYROL

    TSUGA

    XETE

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Coptis occidentalis

    Menziesia ferruginea

    Pinus albicaulis

    Pinus contorta

    Picea engelmannii

    Pyrola

    Tsuga

    Xerophyllum tenax

    subalpine fir

    Idaho goldthread

    rusty menziesia

    whitebark pine

    lodgepole pine

    Engelmann spruce

    wintergreen

    hemlock

    common beargrass

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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

    7

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    1584

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    350

    1270

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    594

    Lookout

    SNOTEL
    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 06N04112
    Oe—4 to 8 centimeters (1.6 to 3.1 inches); ashy moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 06N04113
    A—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), brown (10YR 5/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; medial silt loam; 5 percent clay; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04114
    Bw1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; medial silty clay loam; 7 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04115
    Bw2—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; medial gravelly silt loam; 8 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04116
    2BC—56 to 72 centimeters (22.0 to 28.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; extremely cobbly silt loam; 7 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 medium tubular and 1.0 medium irregular and 3.0 fine irregular and 3.0 fine tubular and 1.0 coarse tubular and 1.0 coarse irregular pores; fragments; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 06N04117
    2C—72 to 156 centimeters (28.3 to 61.4 inches); channers; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 medium irregular and 21.0 fine irregular and 3.0 coarse irregular pores; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 06N04118
    2Cr—156 to 166 centimeters (61.4 to 65.4 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 06N04119