IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Schnipper
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83-FDH-1375
  • User Pedon ID: S08ID073007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 83-FDH-1375
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0968
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24610
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 43.0883331
  • Std. Longitude: -116.9708328
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4 S.
  • Range: 5 W.
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 2200 feet north and 1700 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: Don Hobson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, 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 #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Schnipper
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Argiduridic Durixerolls
  • PSC - 30 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/1984
  • 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: alluvium derived from volcanic rock and/or loess derived from volcanic rock
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: pyroclastic flow
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/23/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: 025XY012ID
  • 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

    ARTRV

    ELELE

    FEID

    SYOR2

    THIN6

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana

    Elymus elymoides ssp. elymoides

    Festuca idahoensis

    Symphoricarpos oreophilus

    Thinopyrum intermedium

    mountain big sagebrush

    squirreltail

    Idaho fescue

    mountain snowberry

    intermediate wheatgrass

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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—30

    30—66

    91—

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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

    35

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    1463

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    360

    406

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    6.1

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; 16 percent clay; moderate medium platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 5.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine vesicular and 0.5 fine interstitial and 0.5 fine vesicular pores; ; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03650
    A2—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.2 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine vesicular and 0.5 fine interstitial and 0.5 fine vesicular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03651
    Bt1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.2 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 70 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03652
    Bt2—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.2 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03653
    Bkq—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; cemented loam; 21 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm by carbonates; 0.2 very fine roots in cracks and 0.2 fine roots in cracks; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent threadlike carbonate masses in matrix and 30 percent durinodes; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-160-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03654
    Bkqm—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches);, strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist; massive; very hard, very firm by carbonates; brittle; fragments. continuous weakly cemented duripan with thin indurated laminar cap