IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Van Dusen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966ID075007
  • User Pedon ID: S1966ID075007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1966ID075007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1088
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34147
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 44.0411194
  • Std. Longitude: -116.7368222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: About 35 miles Northeast of Payette, Idaho, on upper Big Willow Creek in a pit 900 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Payette County, Idaho.
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID075—Payette
  • MLRA: 11—Snake River Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID659—Payette County, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Thomas W. Priest and Lawerence M. Rasmussen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Van Dusen
  • PSC - 56 to 106 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/10/2018
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Jacknife
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1966 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: DHY-3P-6
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    FEID

    Festuca idahoensis

    Idaho fescue

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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

    45

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    805

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    45

    315

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    135

    10.2

    20

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; weak thin platy parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08221; dry when described;
    A2—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08222; dry when described;
    A3—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08223; dry when described;
    Bt1—56 to 89 centimeters (22.0 to 35.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, bromthymol blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08224; dry when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 1531424; continuous - phpvsfiid 1531424
    Bt2—89 to 124 centimeters (35.0 to 48.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; clay; moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08225; dry when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 1531425; continuous - phpvsfiid 1531425
    Bt3—124 to 157 centimeters (48.8 to 61.8 inches); yellow (10YR 8/6), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist; clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A08226; dry when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 1531426; continuous - phpvsfiid 1531426
    C—157 to 168 centimeters (61.8 to 66.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A08227; dry when described;