IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Simonton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975ID025008
  • User Pedon ID: S1975ID025008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4238
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40402
  • Print Date: 4/21/2025

    • 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: 43.3268356
  • Std. Longitude: -114.7525787
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: A pit 130 feet west and 255 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Camas County, Idaho.
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID025—Camas
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID673—Camas County Area, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles W. Case and Gary A. Monroe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Simonton
  • PSC - 26 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Simonton
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: DLF-7T-42
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    2

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    1524

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    180

    330

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    4.4

    15.6

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    AP—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A32313; dry when described;
    B1—18 to 26 centimeters (7.1 to 10.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A32314; dry when described;
    B21T—26 to 38 centimeters (10.2 to 15.0 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A32315; dry when described;
    B22T—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine tubular pores; 75 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A32316; dry when described;
    B2T—53 to 94 centimeters (20.9 to 37.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 75 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A32317; dry when described;
    C1—94 to 140 centimeters (37.0 to 55.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; loamy sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A32318; dry when described;