IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Formation
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09-KLM-003
  • User Pedon ID: S09ID029001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0541
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40021
  • 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: 44.4199715
  • Std. Longitude: -111.8013306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID033—Clark
  • MLRA: 13—Eastern Idaho Plateaus
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID761—Clark County Area, Idaho, Parts of Clark and Butte Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Glenn Hoffmann
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, carbonatic, frigid Typic Haploxerepts
  • 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 - Formation
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, carbonatic, frigid Typic Haploxerepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/29/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/29/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    cemented horizon

    weakly coherent

    54 - 65

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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

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    1958.6

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    360

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    Ap1—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; 12 percent clay; weak medium platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 8.0 very fine roots; 2.0 very fine irregular and 5.0 very fine tubular pores; carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume flat 150-250-380 millimeter travertine fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N02270; dry when described;
    Ap2—4 to 23 centimeters (1.6 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; 12 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine irregular and 1.0 very fine tubular pores; carbonate masses; 3 percent by volume flat 150-250-380 millimeter travertine fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N02271; dry when described;
    C1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 13 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 5 percent by volume flat 150-250-380 millimeter travertine fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N02272; dry when described;
    C2—41 to 80 centimeters (16.1 to 31.5 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist; loamy coarse sand; 2 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable by carbonates, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 6.0 very fine interstitial pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 2 percent by volume 2-15-75 millimeter travertine fragments and 8 percent by volume flat 150-250-380 millimeter travertine fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N02273; dry when described;
    C3—80 to 106 centimeters (31.5 to 41.7 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist; loamy sand; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 6.0 very fine interstitial pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 2 percent by volume flat 150-250-380 millimeter travertine fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N02274; dry when described;
    Cr—106 centimeters (41.7 inches); fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 10N02275; dry when described;