IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tensed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005ID009002
  • User Pedon ID: S2005ID009002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005ID009002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0876
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18387
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 47.1638832
  • Std. Longitude: -116.8655014
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 44 N.
  • Range: 4 W.
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 150 feet north and 2300 feet east of the SW corner
  • Location Description: about 2.6. miles east of Tensed, Idaho
  • Map Unit: 353—Tensed-Pedee complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes
  • 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-B7—Benewah, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JC Chugg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Xeric Argialbolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tensed
  • PSC - 58 to 108 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/20/2013
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tensed
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Xeric Argialbolls
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed volcanic ash and loess over Tertiary alluvium
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: dissected paleoterrace
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Ts-miocene Sediments group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN260 - Douglas-fir/ninebark—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BRVU

    CARU

    GALIU

    PIPO

    PSME

    RONU

    ROWO

    SPBE2

    SYAL

    Bromus vulgaris

    Calamagrostis rubescens

    Galium

    Pinus ponderosa

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Rosa nutkana

    Rosa woodsii

    Spiraea betulifolia

    Symphoricarpos albus

    Columbia brome

    pinegrass

    bedstraw

    ponderosa pine

    Douglas-fir

    Nootka rose

    Woods' rose

    white spirea

    common snowberry

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

    mollic epipedon

    albic horizon

    episaturation

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—20

    46—58

    46—58

    58—152

    102—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

    4

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    838

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    215

    685

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 fine pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N04493
    BA—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine roots; 5.0 very fine tubular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N04494
    E—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 0.2 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bt1—58 to 86 centimeters (22.8 to 33.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.2 very fine roots between peds; 5.0 medium tubular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; 55 percent clay films; 5 percent iron-manganese concretions; ; 2 percent by volume nonflat 5-15-20 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt wavy boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 445767; continuous - phpvsfiid 445767
    Bt2—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.2 very fine roots between peds; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 60 percent clay films; 5 percent iron-manganese concretions; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt wavy boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 445768; continuous - phpvsfiid 445768
    2Bt3—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; very gravelly clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 65 percent clay films; 10 percent iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-160-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat 20-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8. continuous - phpvsfiid 445769; continuous - phpvsfiid 445769