IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Disalto
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002ID057002
  • User Pedon ID: S2002ID057002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2002ID057002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N1044
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15615
  • Print Date: 11/25/2024
  • 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: 46.9761124
  • Std. Longitude: -116.5416641
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 42N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 1350feet south and 950 feet east of the NW corner
  • Map Unit: Da1—Disalto ashy silt loam, cool, 5 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID057—Latah
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID057—Latah County, Idaho
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46116-H5—Sand Mountain, Idaho
  • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy over loamy, amorphic over mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Udivitrands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Disalto
  • PSC - 2 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/22/2013
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Disalto
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial over loamy, mixed over amorphic, superactive, frigid Alfic Udivitrands
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over loess over residuum weathered from gneiss
  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN575 - western hemlock/wild ginger—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)
  • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/16/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    ABGR

    ACGL

    ADBI

    ANPI

    ASCA

    BRVU

    CHUM

    COOC

    LIBOL2

    LOUT2

    PIMO3

    PSMEG

    ROGY

    SMST

    SYAL

    THPL

    TSHE

    Abies grandis

    Acer glabrum

    Adenocaulon bicolor

    Anemone piperi

    Asarum canadense

    Bromus vulgaris

    Chimaphila umbellata

    Coptis occidentalis

    Linnaea borealis ssp. longiflora

    Lonicera utahensis

    Pinus monticola

    Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca

    Rosa gymnocarpa

    Smilacina stellata

    Symphoricarpos albus

    Thuja plicata

    Tsuga heterophylla

    grand fir

    Rocky Mountain maple

    American trailplant

    Piper's anemone

    Canadian wildginger

    Columbia brome

    pipsissewa

    Idaho goldthread

    longtube twinflower

    Utah honeysuckle

    western white pine

    Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir

    dwarf rose

    common snowberry

    western redcedar

    western hemlock

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

    ochric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—5

    2—44

    44—93

    44—77

    77—154

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    30

    1021

    230

    940

    Oe—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 02N05334
    A—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; ashy silt loam; 8 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N05335
    Bw1—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; ashy silt loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky parts to weak very fine and fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05336
    Bw2—20 to 44 centimeters (7.9 to 17.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; ashy silt loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium and coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 medium tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05337
    2Bt1—44 to 59 centimeters (17.3 to 23.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; 18 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots between peds and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 15 percent distinct skeletans on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05338
    2Bt2—59 to 77 centimeters (23.2 to 30.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; 18 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine and fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent distinct skeletans on all faces of peds and 25 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified between peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05339
    3BC—77 to 93 centimeters (30.3 to 36.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; loam; 16 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots between peds and 1.0 medium and coarse roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 15 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05340
    3C1—93 to 116 centimeters (36.6 to 45.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) crushed, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) crushed, dry; paragravelly fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots between peds and 1.0 medium and coarse roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05341
    3C2—116 to 130 centimeters (45.7 to 51.2 inches); 95 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) crushed and 5 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), 95 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4) crushed and 5 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry; paragravelly fine sandy loam; 8 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots in cracks and 1.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05342
    3C3—130 to 154 centimeters (51.2 to 60.6 inches); 90 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) crushed and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), 60 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4) and 30 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/3) crushed and 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry; very paragravelly fine sandy loam; 8 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots in cracks; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7. Lab sample # 02N05343