IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Avonville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013ID055005
  • User Pedon ID: S2013ID055005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 14N0093
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74422
  • 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: 47.7927778
  • Std. Longitude: -116.8130556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 51N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 1,690 feet north and 1,230 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: about 1.2 miles north of Coeur d'Alene airport.
  • Map Unit: 103—Avonville fine 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-G7—Hayden, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Allyson Young
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal over loamy-skeletal, amorphic over isotic, frigid Alfic Humic Haploxerands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Avonville
  • PSC - 0 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/28/2019
  • Classifier - Scott Bare
  • 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: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/5/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Allyson Young
  • 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

    andic soil properties

    mollic epipedon

    lithologic discontinuity

    argillic horizon

    0—40

    0—40

    40—

    40—57

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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

    2

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    702

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    121

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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, black (10YR 2/1) broken face, moist; gravelly ashy silt loam; 6 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular, and weak very fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular, and weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; 18 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 14N00303; observed in trench. 3 bulk density clods collected
    Ap2—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; gravelly ashy silt loam; 6 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N00304; observed in trench. 3 bulk density clods collected
    Bw—25 to 40 centimeters (9.8 to 15.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; gravelly ashy silt loam; 5 percent clay; weak thin platy parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky, and weak thin platy parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N00305; observed in trench. 3 bulk density clods collected
    2Bt—40 to 57 centimeters (15.7 to 22.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; very gravelly loam; 18 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint clay films between sand grains and 5 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 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-400-600 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; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N00306; observed in trench. 3 bulk density clods collected
    2BC—57 to 76 centimeters (22.4 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face, moist; extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; 17 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 3 percent faint clay films between sand grains; 5 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 55 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N00307; observed in trench. bulk sample collected. no bulk density collected.
    2C—76 to 85 centimeters (29.9 to 33.5 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; 14 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots throughout 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 rounded indurated 75-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 55 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method.; observed in trench. not sampled