IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Caldwell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004ID009001
  • User Pedon ID: S2004ID009003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N1103
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16860
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 47.1905556
  • Std. Longitude: -116.9980545
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 44N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: about 630 feet south and 1040 feet east of the NW corner
  • Map Unit: 116—Thatuna-Caldwell complex, 0 to 4 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID009—Benewah
  • MLRA: 9—Palouse and Nez Perce Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID607—Benewah County Area, IdahoID620—Benewah County Area, Idaho, Western Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47116-B8—Tensed, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Bare
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Vitrandic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Caldwell
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/15/2013
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hangman
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over alluvium
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: terrace on valley
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Alluvial Deposits formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/12/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Winter wheat
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    albic materials

    0—79

    79—152

    79—152

    79—152

    97—152

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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

    2

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    —

    770

    —

    180

    508

    —

    130

    8.9

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    —

    9.4

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    Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face, black (10YR 2/1) broken face, moist; silt loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Ap2—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face, black (10YR 2/1) broken face, moist; silt loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    AB—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 10.0 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    EB—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 10.0 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    Bw—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face and dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine prismatic, and weak medium prismatic structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 10.0 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 2 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent faint noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 318068; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 318068
    Bg1—97 to 112 centimeters (38.2 to 44.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face and light gray (2.5Y 7/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 25 percent distinct noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry, masses of oxidized iron and 40 percent faint noncoherent cemented gray (2.5Y 6/1), dry, masses of reduced iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Bg2—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 10.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent fine extremely weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses and 30 percent distinct noncoherent cemented light gray (5Y 7/1), dry, and light gray (2.5Y 7/1), dry, masses of reduced iron and 40 percent distinct noncoherent cemented olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), dry, and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog.; observed in trench