IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): EMERSON
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956ID045014
  • User Pedon ID: S1956ID045014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1096
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34155
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 43.8990402
  • Std. Longitude: -116.4520874
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 70 feet east and 730 feet south of the northwest corner of the SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Gem County, Idaho. Gem SCD. about 3 miles northeast of Emmett.
  • 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: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, nonacid, mesic Xeric Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - EMERSON
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Emerson
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/1956 (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); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08298
    C1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08299
    C2—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08300
    2C3—71 to 71 centimeters (28.0 to 28.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A08301