IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cassyhill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004ID009009
  • User Pedon ID: S2004ID009009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2004ID009009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0149
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16986
  • 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: 47.3522224
  • Std. Longitude: -116.6200027
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 46N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: about 1,070 feet south and 2,285 feet east of the NW corner
  • Location Description: NW of St. Maries
  • Map Unit: 776—Cassyhill very gravelly ashy silt loam, 35 to 65 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID009—Benewah
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID620—Benewah County Area, Idaho, Western Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47116-C5—Saint Maries, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Ultic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cassyhill
  • PSC - 1 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/29/2015
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grassymountain
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, isotic, mesic Lithic Ultic Haploxerolls
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash and/or loess over colluvium and/or metasedimentary residuum
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wallace formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/9/2004 (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

    ACHIL

    AMAL

    BASA3

    FEID

    GALIU

    HIERA

    PSSP6

    SYAL

    Achillea

    Amaranthus albus

    Balsamorhiza sagittata

    Festuca idahoensis

    Galium

    Hieracium

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    Symphoricarpos albus

    yarrow

    prostrate pigweed

    arrowleaf balsamroot

    Idaho fescue

    bedstraw

    hawkweed

    bluebunch wheatgrass

    common snowberry

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

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    33 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    1—20

    8—33

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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

    55

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    786.4

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    158

    711

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—1 to 8 centimeters (0.4 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; very gravelly ashy loam; 12 percent clay; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 45 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N00737
    Bw—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) crushed, moist; gravelly ashy silt loam; 14 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 3 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 05N00738
    BC—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very channery silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 very fine irregular and 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 medium irregular and 21.0 fine irregular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 45 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.1; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 05N00739
    R—33 centimeters (13.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.