IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MAGIC
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975ID025002
  • User Pedon ID: S1975ID025002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4232
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40396
  • User Project ID: NW-MOS_2018_08
  • Project Name: SPECIAL - Idaho Soils Atlas Pedons
  • 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: 43.2693367
  • Std. Longitude: -114.5998001
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2S
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: A pit 1,650 feet west and 250 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Camas County, Idaho.
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID025—Camas
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • Regional Office: 1—Portland, OR
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-ONT—Ontario, Oregon
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID673—Camas County Area, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles W. Case and Gary A. Monroe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic, frigid Entic Chromoxererts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - MAGIC
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Magic
  • Classificaton Date - 9/29/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from basalt
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: lava plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/29/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: DLF61-125
  • 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
    • 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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    1615

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    180

    370

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    90

    5.8

    17.8

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    A11—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay; strong very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 21.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A32270; dry when described;
    A12—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; clay; moderate thick platy parts to moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A32271; dry when described;
    C1—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; clay; weak very coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A32272; dry when described;
    C2—61 to 66 centimeters (24.0 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; clay; weak very coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A32273; dry when described;
    C3CA—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; clay; weak very coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A32274; dry when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 189287; continuous - phpvsfiid 189287
    C4CA—84 to 89 centimeters (33.1 to 35.0 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 75 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A32275; dry when described;
    R—89 to 100 centimeters (35.0 to 39.4 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A32276; dry when described;. Basalt bedrock.