IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Secunda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002ID057008
  • User Pedon ID: S2002ID057008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2002ID057008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N1050
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15621
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024
  • 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: 46.9491653
  • Std. Longitude: -116.5436096
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 42N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 450 feet south and 170 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: 9 miles east and 2 miles north of Harvard, Idaho.
  • Map Unit: Pa1—Secunda-Flewsie complex, 25 to 60 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

  • Describers Name: GLENN HOFFMANN
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy over loamy, aniso, 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 #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Secunda (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 3 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/25/2013
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Secunda
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over residuum weathered from quartzite
  • Landscape: complex mountains
  • Landform: upper mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: quartzite
  • Geology: Wallace formation of the Belt Supergroup group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN570 - western hemlock/queencup beadlily—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)
  • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/11/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: tshe-clun
  • 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

    CHUM

    CLUN

    LAOC

    LIBO

    PIMO

    PSMEG

    THPL

    TSHE

    THPL

    PSMEG

    ABGR

    LAOC

    TSHE

    PIMO3

    CHUM

    CLUN2

    LIBOL2

    PYSE

    SYAL

    PAMY

    Chimaphila umbellata

    Clarkia unguiculata

    Larix occidentalis

    Lilium bolanderi

    Pinus monophylla

    Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca

    Thuja plicata

    Tsuga heterophylla

    Thuja plicata

    Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca

    Abies grandis

    Larix occidentalis

    Tsuga heterophylla

    Pinus monticola

    Chimaphila umbellata

    Clintonia uniflora

    Linnaea borealis ssp. longiflora

    Pyrola secunda

    Symphoricarpos albus

    Paxistima myrsinites

    pipsissewa

    elegant clarkia

    western larch

    Bolander's lily

    singleleaf pinyon

    Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir

    western redcedar

    western hemlock

    western redcedar

    Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir

    grand fir

    western larch

    western hemlock

    western white pine

    pipsissewa

    bride's bonnet

    longtube twinflower

    common snowberry

    Oregon boxleaf

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

    ochric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    cambic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    8—48

    18—48

    48—99

    —18—

    —40—

    —30—

    —51—

    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

    54

    1015

    30

    990

    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 02N05400; dry when described;
    Oe—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); highly decomposed plant material; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05401; dry when described;
    A—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/3) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/3) crushed, dry; ashy silt loam; 38 percent sand; 54 percent silt; 9 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 6.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-5-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05402; slightly moist when described;
    Bw1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, dry; ashy silt loam; 37 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 6.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-5-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05403; slightly moist when described;
    Bw2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) crushed, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dry; ashy silt loam; 39 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 6.0 very fine roots and 0.2 very coarse roots and 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.3 coarse roots; 0.5 very fine irregular and 0.5 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05404; slightly moist when described;
    2Bt—48 to 79 centimeters (18.9 to 31.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, light brown (7.5YR 6/3) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 6 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, extremely weakly coherent, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.2 very coarse roots and 0.2 medium roots and 0.3 fine roots and 0.3 coarse roots; 6.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 0.3 medium dendritic tubular and 0.5 fine dendritic tubular and 0.1 coarse dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent faint silt coats on surfaces along pores and 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-5-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 02N05405; slightly moist when described;
    2BCt—79 to 99 centimeters (31.1 to 39.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; loamy sand; 81 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, extremely weakly coherent, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 very fine dendritic tubular and 0.5 very fine irregular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 5 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 10 percent faint silt coats on surfaces along pores; 3 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 11 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-5-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05406; slightly moist when described;
    2C1—99 to 127 centimeters (39.0 to 50.0 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) broken face, 70 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face and 30 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) broken face, dry; very gravelly loamy sand; 82 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 4 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, extremely weakly coherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 3.0 very fine irregular and 0.5 fine irregular pores; 5 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 38 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-15-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05407; slightly moist when described;
    2C2—127 to 193 centimeters (50.0 to 76.0 inches); 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face and 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) broken face, 50 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) broken face and 50 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) broken face, dry; very gravelly sand; 86 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 4 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, extremely weakly coherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 4 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05408; slightly moist when described;
    2C3—163 to 185 centimeters (64.2 to 72.8 inches); 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face, 60 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) broken face and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face, dry; gravelly loamy sand; 83 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 5 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, extremely weakly coherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine irregular and 0.5 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 27 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments. Lab sample # 02N05409; slightly moist when described;