IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Garrison
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013ID055001
  • User Pedon ID: S2013ID055001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 14N0089
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74418
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 47.7491667
  • Std. Longitude: -116.9046111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 51N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 1,580 feet north and 2,580 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: about 2.5 miles northeast of the city of Post Falls
  • Map Unit: 119—Garrison gravelly silt loam, 0 to 7 percent slopes
  • County: ID055—Kootenai
  • MLRA: 44A—Northern Rocky Mountain Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID606—Kootenai County Area, Idaho
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47116-F8—Post Falls, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Allyson Young
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, mesic Vitrandic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Garrison
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/3/2014
  • Classifier - Allyson Young
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash and/or noncalcareous loess over glacial outwash
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN170 - ponderosa pine/common snowberry—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/11/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Allyson Young
  • Plant Association Name: ponderosa pine/snowberry
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    volcanic glass

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—76

    0—30

    30—76

    48—

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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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    677

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    267

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, black (10YR 2/1) broken face, moist; gravelly ashy silt loam; 14 percent clay; moderate medium granular, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 14N00280; moist when described; observed in trench. 3 bulk density clods collected
    Ap2—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; gravelly ashy silt loam; 16 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout and few medium roots and many fine roots throughout; 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N00281; slightly moist when described; observed in trench. 3 bulk density clods collected
    Bw1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in trench. 3 bulk density clods collected
    2Bw2—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; extremely gravelly sandy loam; 24 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots throughout and few medium roots and common fine roots throughout; 3 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 55 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N00283; slightly moist when described; observed in trench. 3 bulk density clods collected
    2BC—76 to 92 centimeters (29.9 to 36.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face, moist; extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and few medium roots and common fine roots throughout; 3 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 60 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N00284; dry when described; observed in trench. bulk sample collected. no bulk density collected.
    2C—92 to 105 centimeters (36.2 to 41.3 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly coarse sand; 3 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots throughout and few medium roots and few fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct silica coats on bottom of rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent.; dry when described; observed in trench. not sampled