IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): EMERSON
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956ID045009
  • User Pedon ID: S1956ID045009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1100
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34159
  • 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: 43.8768196
  • Std. Longitude: -116.4651413
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 970 feet south and 520 feet west of the NE corner of NW1/4
  • Location Description: Gem County, Idaho, Gem SCD. , about 1 mile east of Emmett. Sample taken from a pit.
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID045—Gem
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID660—Gem County Area, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Leighty
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, nonacid, mesic Xeric Torriorthents
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - EMERSON
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Emerson
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/27/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    A1—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; fine sandy loam; weak very thin platy parts to weak very fine granular structure; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08321
    A12—1 to 13 centimeters (0.4 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; fine sandy loam; moderate very thin platy parts to weak very fine granular structure; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 vesicular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A08322
    C1—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; 30 percent clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A08323. continuous - phpvsfiid 181576; continuous - phpvsfiid 181576
    C2—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; 1 percent spherical carbonate nodules; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A08324
    C3—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A08325
    2C4CA—66 to 89 centimeters (26.0 to 35.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; Error; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A08326
    2C5—89 to 89 centimeters (35.0 to 35.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; Error; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red. Lab sample # 40A08327