IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Quartzburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975ID039002
  • User Pedon ID: S1975ID039002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1975ID039002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4240
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 43.5469444
  • Std. Longitude: -115.2569444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: A pit 1000 feet east and 1020 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Elmore County, Idaho.
  • Map Unit: 16—Broad Canyon-Switchback association, 30 to 70 percent slopes
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID039—Elmore
  • MLRA: 43B—Central Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID672—Elmore Area, Idaho, Parts of Elmore, Owyhee and Ada Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43115-E3—Featherville, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Thomas W. Priest and George Wendt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Xerorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Quartzburg
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/2023
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - thirteenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Snd
  • Classificaton Date - 9/30/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from granite
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/30/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    BALSA

    FEID

    Balsamorhiza

    Festuca idahoensis

    balsamroot

    Idaho fescue

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—18

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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

    70

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    1522

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    225

    630

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    95

    6.8

    14.4

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; 8 percent clay; moderate fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A32325; dry when described;
    C1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; 11 percent clay; weak coarse granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A32326; dry when described;
    C2—28 to 75 centimeters (11.0 to 29.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; very cobbly coarse sandy loam; 9 percent clay; weak coarse granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A32327; dry when described;
    C3—75 to 132 centimeters (29.5 to 52.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), very pale brown (10YR 8/3), dry; very stony sandy loam; 12 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A32328; dry when described;
    Cr—132 to 161 centimeters (52.0 to 63.4 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 40A32329. Weathering granitic bedrock.