IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Barnard
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 85-ALH-1563
  • User Pedon ID: S08ID073002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 85-ALH-1563
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0963
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24605
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 42.5805550
  • Std. Longitude: -116.6200027
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S.
  • Range: 2 W.
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 1625 feet north and 1750 feet west 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: Alan Harkness
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Argiduridic Durixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Barnard
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Argiduridic Durixerolls
  • PSC - 15 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/1980
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from welded tuff
  • Landscape: volcanic field
  • Landform: structural bench
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: tuff, welded at 46cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub 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

    PUTR2

    Artemisia arbuscula

    Elymus elymoides ssp. elymoides

    Festuca idahoensis

    Purshia tridentata

    little sagebrush

    squirreltail

    Idaho fescue

    antelope bitterbrush

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    duripan

    indurated

    69 - 104

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    duripan

    0—28

    15—58

    69—104

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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

    5

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    1700

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    315

    356

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; 23 percent clay; moderate fine platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots; 5.0 very fine interstitial and 5.0 very fine vesicular and 0.5 medium interstitial and 0.5 medium vesicular and 5.0 fine vesicular and 5.0 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03634
    Bt1—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 5.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03635
    Bt2—28 to 58 centimeters (11.0 to 22.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay; 50 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.2 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 90 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03636
    2Bkq—58 to 69 centimeters (22.8 to 27.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) very gravelly sandy loam; 8 percent clay; strong fine platy structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.2 very fine roots and 0.2 fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-160-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03637
    2Bkqm—69 to 104 centimeters (27.2 to 40.9 inches); platy structure; extremely hard, extremely firm; brittle; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8.
    2C—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) gravelly loamy sand; single grain; loose; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-160-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5.