IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): WARDWELL
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956ID045012
  • User Pedon ID: S1956ID045012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1057
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34116
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 43.8826523
  • Std. Longitude: -116.4784775
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet north and 80 feet west of center of SE 1/4
  • Location Description: Gem County, Idaho. Gem SCD. 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: Fosberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed Aquic Haplargids
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - WARDWELL
  • PSC - 10 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/2006
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wardwell
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • 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 - crop cover
  • 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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    AP—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; faint mottles; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A07921
    A33—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; 3 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine and medium faint mottles; massive; hard when dry, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A07922
    B13u—25 to 30 centimeters (9.8 to 11.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; 3 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine and medium faint and 3 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine and medium faint mottles; massive; hard when dry, friable; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.7, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A07923
    B2G—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; 3 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine distinct mottles; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate and strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dry, clay films and 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, cresol red. Lab sample # 40A07924
    B3cag—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; loam; 3 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine distinct and 3 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine distinct mottles; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; very hard, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, cresol red. Lab sample # 40A07925
    D1—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 1 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) fine faint and 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) fine faint mottles; massive; hard, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, cresol red. Lab sample # 40A07926
    D2—81 centimeters (31.9 inches); Error; fragments.