IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gacey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 84-ALH-1470
  • User Pedon ID: S08ID073005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 84-ALH-1470
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0966
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24608
  • 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: 42.8472214
  • Std. Longitude: -116.9550018
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7 S.
  • Range: 5 W.
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4 NW 1/4
  • 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: Clayey-skeletal, smectitic, mesic, shallow 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 #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gacey
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, smectitic, mesic, shallow Argiduridic Durixerolls
  • PSC - 10 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/4/1983
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from latite and/or slope alluvium derived from basalt
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: nonflat 250- to 600-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/1983 (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

    ELELE

    FEID

    POSE

    PSSP6

    PUTR2

    Artemisia arbuscula

    Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

    Elymus elymoides ssp. elymoides

    Festuca idahoensis

    Poa secunda

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    Purshia tridentata

    little sagebrush

    yellow rabbitbrush

    squirreltail

    Idaho fescue

    Sandberg bluegrass

    bluebunch wheatgrass

    antelope bitterbrush

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

    duripan

    strongly coherent

    41 - 69

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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—10

    10—41

    41—69

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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

    20

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    1530

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    270

    356

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; stony loam; 22 percent clay; moderate coarse platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 very fine vesicular and 0.5 medium interstitial and 0.5 medium vesicular and 3.0 fine vesicular and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03644
    Bt—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; cobbly clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.2 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-160-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03645
    2Btq—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very cobbly clay; 40 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.2 very fine 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; 20 percent by volume nonflat 75-160-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N03646
    2Bqm1—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); massive; very hard, very firm by silica; fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    2Bqm2—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); massive; very hard, very firm by silica; fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    2C—69 to 152 centimeters (27.2 to 59.8 inches); extremely gravelly loamy sand; 5 percent clay; single grain; loose; 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-160-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments.