IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Libertybutte
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004ID009007
  • User Pedon ID: S2004ID009007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2004ID009007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0147
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16984
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 47.1655540
  • Std. Longitude: -117.0069427
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 44N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: About 600 feet north and 1200 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Benewah County, Idaho; 5 miles west of De Smet on the south flank of Liberty Butte
  • Map Unit: 612—Libertybutte-Tekoa complex, 5 to 30 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: 47117-B1—Tekoa, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jerry McDonald
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Libertybutte
  • PSC - 10 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/14/2013
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Libertybutte
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Argixerolls
  • Classificaton Date - 8/22/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R009XY026ID Shallow South Slope Stony 16-22 PZ PSSPS-POSE Mar 14 2013 Brian Gardner

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/22/2007 (entry creation 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

    ACMI2

    BASA3

    FEID

    LOMAT

    LUPIN

    POSE

    PSSP6

    Achillea millefolium

    Balsamorhiza sagittata

    Festuca idahoensis

    Lomatium

    Lupinus

    Poa secunda

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    common yarrow

    arrowleaf balsamroot

    Idaho fescue

    desertparsley

    lupine

    Sandberg bluegrass

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

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    41 - 48

    48 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    1—41

    28—41

    41—48

    48—

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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

    23

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    1067

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    240

    635

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    C—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; gravelly ashy silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A—1 to 10 centimeters (0.4 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; gravelly ashy silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N00730
    Bt1—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N00731. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 796403; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 796403
    Bt2—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; channery silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N00732. continuous - phpvsfiid 796402; continuous - phpvsfiid 796402
    Crt—41 to 48 centimeters (16.1 to 18.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.
    R—48 centimeters (18.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.