IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Avtable
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 80-JSR-825
  • User Pedon ID: S08ID073001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 80-JSR-825
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0962
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24604
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 42.5905571
  • Std. Longitude: -116.5788879
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 S.
  • Range: 2 W.
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1600 feet west and 400 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Owyhee County
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID073—Owyhee
  • MLRA: 25—Owyhee High Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID675—Owyhee County Area, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Renthal
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Lithic Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Avtable
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Lithic Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • PSC - 10 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/1980
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium derived from welded tuff and/or loamy residuum weathered from welded tuff
  • Landscape: volcanic field
  • Landform: pyroclastic flow
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: tuff, welded at 48cm
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent flat 380- to 600-millimeter tuff, welded,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Plant Association Name: 025XY010ID
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • 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

    ARAR8

    ELELE

    FEID

    JUNIP

    POSE

    PSSP6

    PUTR2

    Artemisia arbuscula

    Elymus elymoides ssp. elymoides

    Festuca idahoensis

    Juniperus

    Poa secunda

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    Purshia tridentata

    little sagebrush

    squirreltail

    Idaho fescue

    juniper

    Sandberg bluegrass

    bluebunch wheatgrass

    antelope bitterbrush

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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

    2

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    1771

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    180

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; stony loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 0.2 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 0.2 coarse roots; 5.0 very fine interstitial and 5.0 very fine vesicular and 5.0 fine vesicular and 5.0 fine interstitial pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter tuff, welded fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-4-5 millimeter tuff, welded fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03631
    Bt1—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 5.0 very fine interstitial and 5.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent clay bridges between sand grains and 15 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-160-250 millimeter tuff, welded fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter tuff, welded fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03632
    Bt2—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; extremely stony clay loam; 28 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.2 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 0.2 coarse roots; 5.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter tuff, welded fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat 75-160-250 millimeter tuff, welded fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter tuff, welded fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 09N03633
    R—48 centimeters (18.9 inches); fragments.