IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Garrison
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013ID055003
  • User Pedon ID: S2013ID055003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2013ID055003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 14N0091
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74420
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 47.7556944
  • Std. Longitude: -116.9880556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 51N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 1,480 feet south and 1,810 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: about 3 miles northwest 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-G8—Rathdrum, 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: convex
  • 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: 9/6/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Allyson Young
  • Plant Association Name: ponderosa pine/snowberry
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    BRIN2

    CENTA

    FRAGA

    HYPER

    PIPO

    SYAL

    Bromus inermis

    Centaurea

    Fragaria

    Hypericum

    Pinus ponderosa

    Symphoricarpos albus

    smooth brome

    knapweed

    strawberry

    St. Johnswort

    ponderosa pine

    common snowberry

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

    mollic epipedon

    volcanic glass

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    3—45

    3—45

    25—65

    45—

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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

    5

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    639

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    343

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 14N00291; observed in trench. 1 compliant cavity and 1 bulk sample collected
    A1—3 to 12 centimeters (1.2 to 4.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, black (10YR 2/1) broken face, moist; ashy silt loam; 8 percent clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout and common medium roots and many fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 14N00292; observed in trench. 3 bulk density clods collected
    A2—12 to 23 centimeters (4.7 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, black (10YR 2/1) broken face, moist; ashy silt loam; 10 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and few very coarse roots and common medium roots and common fine roots throughout and few coarse roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 12 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method.; observed in trench. 3 bulk density clods collected
    Bw—23 to 45 centimeters (9.1 to 17.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; gravelly ashy silt loam; 10 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and few very coarse roots and common medium roots and common fine roots throughout and few coarse roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method.; observed in trench. 1 compliant cavity collected. 1 bulk sample collected.
    2Bt—45 to 65 centimeters (17.7 to 25.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face, moist; very gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint clay films between sand grains; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-400-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 14N00295; observed in trench. bulk sample collected. no bulk density collected.
    2BC—65 to 90 centimeters (25.6 to 35.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; extremely gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few very fine roots throughout and few medium roots and few fine roots throughout and few coarse roots; 3 percent faint clay films between sand grains; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-400-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 45 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 14N00296; observed in trench. bulk sample collected. no bulk density collected.
    2C1—90 to 125 centimeters (35.4 to 49.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; extremely gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; massive; few very fine roots throughout and few medium roots and few fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-400-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 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. Lab sample # 14N00297; observed in trench. bulk sample collected. no bulk density collected.
    2C2—125 to 140 centimeters (49.2 to 55.1 inches); extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; fragments.; observed in trench. not sampled