IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Boulderjud
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2004ID057008
  • User Pedon ID: S2004ID057008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2004ID057008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0161
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17484
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 46.8049736
  • Std. Longitude: -116.8536682
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet N and 350 feet E of SW corner
  • Location Description: Hand dug pit at snotel site on Moscow Mountain. Note ID 2-04-R Moscow mountain quad.
  • Map Unit: Jm3—Jacot-Vassar complex, 10 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID057—Latah
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID610—Latah County Area, IdahoID057—Latah County, Idaho
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46116-G7—Moscow Mountain, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Alina Arnold Rice
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy over loamy-skeletal, aniso, amorphic over isotic, frigid Typic Udivitrands
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Boulderjud
  • PSC - 3 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/18/2012
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Judgetown-like
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over residuum weathered from granite
  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: mountain
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Undifferentiated formation of the Cretaceous Granite group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN530 - western redcedar/queencup beadlily—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/2004 (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

    ACRU2

    ALSI3

    ANAPH

    CASTI2

    CHUM

    CLUN2

    COOC

    DIHO3

    FRVE

    LAOC

    MOCO4

    PAMY

    PIEN

    PSME

    RUDBE

    RUPA

    SASC

    SETR

    SMRA

    SORBU

    SYAL

    THPL

    VIOR

    Abies grandis

    Acer glabrum

    Actaea rubra

    Alnus sinuata

    Anaphalis

    Castilleja

    Chimaphila umbellata

    Clintonia uniflora

    Coptis occidentalis

    Disporum hookeri

    Fragaria vesca

    Larix occidentalis

    Montia cordifolia

    Paxistima myrsinites

    Picea engelmannii

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Rudbeckia

    Rubus parviflorus

    Salix scouleriana

    Senecio triangularis

    Smilacina racemosa

    Sorbus

    Symphoricarpos albus

    Thuja plicata

    Viola orbiculata

    grand fir

    Rocky Mountain maple

    red baneberry

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    pearly everlasting

    Indian paintbrush

    pipsissewa

    bride's bonnet

    Idaho goldthread

    drops of gold

    woodland strawberry

    western larch

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    Oregon boxleaf

    Engelmann spruce

    Douglas-fir

    coneflower

    thimbleberry

    Scouler's willow

    arrowleaf ragwort

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    mountain ash

    common snowberry

    western redcedar

    darkwoods violet

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

    bedrock, paralithic

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    97 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—19

    3—45

    19—77

    97—

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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

    6

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    1429.5

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    320

    1040

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    989

    Moscow Mountain

    SNOTEL
    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 19 centimeters (1.2 to 7.5 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dry; ashy silt loam; 8 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine and fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00809; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—19 to 45 centimeters (7.5 to 17.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; ashy silt loam; 8 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 4.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.1; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00810; observed in pit, small
    2Bw2—45 to 59 centimeters (17.7 to 23.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; loam; 8 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots around fragments and 4.0 medium roots throughout; 4.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00811; observed in pit, small
    2BC—59 to 77 centimeters (23.2 to 30.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; extremely stony loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter granite fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments and 50 percent by volume 250-?-500 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00812; observed in pit, small
    2C—77 to 97 centimeters (30.3 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) crushed, dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; 7 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 70 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00813; observed in pit, small
    2Cr—97 to 107 centimeters (38.2 to 42.1 inches); massive; fragments.; observed in pit, small