IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fairylawn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83-FDH-1371
  • User Pedon ID: S08ID073004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 83-FDH-1371
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0965
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24607
  • 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: 42.5591660
  • Std. Longitude: -117.0072250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S.
  • Range: 6 W.
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 460 feet south and 1400 feet west of the northeast 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: Don Hobson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Abruptic Durixeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairylawn
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Abruptic Durixeralfs
  • PSC - 20 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/1983
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from volcanic rock and/or loess derived from volcanic rock
  • Landscape: lava plateau
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: basalt at 102cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: 025XY010ID
  • 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

    CHVI8

    FEID

    POSE

    PSSP6

    Artemisia arbuscula

    Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

    Festuca idahoensis

    Poa secunda

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    little sagebrush

    yellow rabbitbrush

    Idaho fescue

    Sandberg bluegrass

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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

    abrupt textural change

    duripan

    bedrock, lithic

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    indurated

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    20 -

    64 -

    102 -

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

    argillic horizon

    abrupt textural change

    duripan

    20—64

    20—

    64—102

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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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    1500

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    270

    330

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    8.3

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky 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; 3.0 very fine vesicular and 3.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 fine vesicular and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03641
    Bt1—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay; 50 percent clay; strong fine prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.2 very fine roots and 0.2 medium roots and 0.2 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 95 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds and 95 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03642. continuous - phpvsfiid 465425; continuous - phpvsfiid 465426; continuous - phpvsfiid 465425; continuous - phpvsfiid 465426
    Bt2—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.2 very fine roots and 0.2 medium roots and 0.2 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter basalt fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03643
    Bkqm—64 to 102 centimeters (25.2 to 40.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3) and very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and reddish yellow (7.5YR 8/6), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist; strong coarse platy structure; extremely hard, very firm by silica; brittle; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.
    R—102 centimeters (40.2 inches); fragments.