IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grangemont
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2014ID057001
  • User Pedon ID: S2014ID057001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2014ID057001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 14N0698
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74574
  • Print Date: 9/25/2024

    • 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: 46.9502056
  • Std. Longitude: -116.3398861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 42N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 28
  • Map Unit: Eb4—Elkberry-Lado complex, 10 to 35 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID057—Latah
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Regional Office: NW—Northwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-MOS—Moscow, Idaho
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID057—Latah County, Idaho
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46116-H3—Bechtel Butte, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Allyson Young
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, frigid Andic Glossudalfs
  • 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 - Grangemont
  • PSC - 27 to 77 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/2014
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elkberry
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial over loamy, amorphic over mixed, superactive, frigid Alfic Udivitrands
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 3 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/17/2014
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over loess and tertiary alluvium
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN570 - western hemlock/queencup beadlily—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/17/2014 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Allyson Young
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    ABGR

    CLUN2

    COCA13

    LIBOL2

    MEFE

    PAMY

    PIEN

    PIMO3

    RHAL2

    SMST

    SYAL

    THPL

    TITRT

    TSHE

    VAGL

    Abies grandis

    Clintonia uniflora

    Cornus canadensis

    Linnaea borealis ssp. longiflora

    Menziesia ferruginea

    Paxistima myrsinites

    Picea engelmannii

    Pinus monticola

    Rhododendron albiflorum

    Smilacina stellata

    Symphoricarpos albus

    Thuja plicata

    Tiarella trifoliata var. trifoliata

    Tsuga heterophylla

    Vaccinium globulare

    grand fir

    bride's bonnet

    bunchberry dogwood

    longtube twinflower

    rusty menziesia

    Oregon boxleaf

    Engelmann spruce

    western white pine

    Cascade azalea

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    common snowberry

    western redcedar

    threeleaf foamflower

    western hemlock

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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

    8

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    975

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    90

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 14N03965
    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; ashy silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 14N03966
    Bw—8 to 27 centimeters (3.1 to 10.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; ashy silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 14N03967
    2Bt/E1—27 to 55 centimeters (10.6 to 21.7 inches); 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), 50 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) and 50 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 14N03968
    2Bt/E2—55 to 80 centimeters (21.7 to 31.5 inches); 60 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), 60 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) and 40 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 14N03969
    2Bt/E3—80 to 110 centimeters (31.5 to 43.3 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), 70 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and 30 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 14N03970
    2Bt—110 centimeters (43.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silty clay loam; fragments.