IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Purdam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956ID045010
  • User Pedon ID: S1956ID045010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1071
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34130
  • 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: 43.8940392
  • Std. Longitude: -116.5468140
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet north and 1,400 feet east of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Gem County, Idaho. about 4 miles NW of Emmett.
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID045—Gem
  • MLRA: 11—Snake River Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID660—Gem County Area, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. A. Fosberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Xerollic Camborthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Purdam
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Purdam
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/23/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    732

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    279

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    8.9

    23.9

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    AP—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08059
    B1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine noncoherent cemented dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) dark concretions; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08060
    B21—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08061. continuous - phpvsfiid 181584; continuous - phpvsfiid 181584
    B22—58 to 86 centimeters (22.8 to 33.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08062. continuous - phpvsfiid 181585; continuous - phpvsfiid 181585
    B23—86 to 107 centimeters (33.9 to 42.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A08063
    MCA—107 to 135 centimeters (42.1 to 53.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very hard, very firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A08064. lime in form of plates and veins in cemented material; appears to have continuous Mn staining.
    C—135 to 160 centimeters (53.1 to 63.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; strong medium platy structure; hard when dry, firm; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A08065. discontinuous Mn staining; occasional vertical veins of limes; noncalcareous except for lime veins.