IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Purdam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010ID027001
  • User Pedon ID: S2010ID027001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1355
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43381
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 43.6166667
  • Std. Longitude: -116.7844444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T 3 N
  • Range: R 4 W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: NW/NW1/4
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID027—Canyon
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID665—Canyon Area, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Alan Harkness
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Haploxeralfic Argidurids
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Purdam
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Haploxeralfic Argidurids
  • PSC - 22 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/26/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over alluvium
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/26/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Wyoming big sagebrush/Thurbers needlegra
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    Ap1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; 17 percent clay; weak medium platy parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 5.0 very fine irregular and 5.0 fine irregular pores; ; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06477
    Ap2—12 to 22 centimeters (4.7 to 8.7 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.2 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N06478
    Bt—22 to 41 centimeters (8.7 to 16.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; 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; 1 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 1 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N06479
    Bkq—41 to 74 centimeters (16.1 to 29.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; 12 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable; 0.2 very fine roots and 0.2 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume weakly coherent cemented durinodes fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N06480
    Bkqm—74 to 112 centimeters (29.1 to 44.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; massive; strongly coherent cemented duripan fragments fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06481
    2Bkb1—112 to 127 centimeters (44.1 to 50.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 5 percent clay; strong medium platy structure; very hard, very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; and and ; and pores; fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N06482
    2Bkqb2—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; stratified stratified sandy loam to sand; weak fine platy, and single grain; extremely hard, very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 10N06483