IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Naz
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 06-JCB-001
  • User Pedon ID: S2006ID675001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 06-JCB-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N1084
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18679
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 7S
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 35
  • Map Unit: 111—Nazaton-Naz complex, 10 to 60 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID073—Owyhee
  • MLRA: 25—Owyhee High Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID675—Owyhee County Area, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Janet Bryant, Leah Juarros
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive Pachic Haplocryolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Naz
  • PSC - 25 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/12/2014
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Naz
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive Pachic Haplocryolls
  • Classificaton Date - 9/5/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated granite at 64cm
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented granite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/5/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Plant Association Name: PSME/SYOR
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    POTR5

    PSME

    SYMPH

    Populus tremuloides

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Symphoricarpos

    quaking aspen

    Douglas-fir

    snowberry

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

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    64 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    0—43

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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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    1981

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    180

    381

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    25

    5

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    774

    South Mtn.

    SNOTEL
    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed, brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed, dry; coarse sandy loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented ? to 2-? millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; - 5 - percent of the total horizon; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04649; observed in pit, small
    A2—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed, brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed, dry; coarse sandy loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented ? to 2-? millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; - 5 - percent of the total horizon; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04650; observed in pit, small
    A3—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed, brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed, dry; coarse sandy loam; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented ? to 2-? millimeter granite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented ? to 8-? millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; - 10 - percent of the total horizon; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04651; observed in pit, small
    C1—43 to 51 centimeters (16.9 to 20.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed, brown (10YR 5/3) rubbed, dry; loamy coarse sand; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 medium tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented ? to 8-? millimeter granite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented ? to 30-? millimeter granite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented ? to 2-? millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; - 25 - percent of the total horizon; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04652; observed in pit, small
    C2—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); coarse sand; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented ? to 8-? millimeter granite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented ? to 30-? millimeter granite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented ? to 2-? millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; - 25 - percent of the total horizon.; observed in pit, small
    R—64 centimeters (25.2 inches); bedrock; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small