IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Garveson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2016ID049004
  • User Pedon ID: S2016ID049004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0030
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87539
  • User Project ID: 2016proj002
  • Project Name: MLRA 43A - DSP - Response of dynamic soil properties to stand structure on Vassar series, Idaho
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024
  • 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: 46.3656472
  • Std. Longitude: -115.6449361
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 24
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID049—Idaho
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Regional Office: NW—Northwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-MOS—Moscow, Idaho
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID671—Clearwater National Forest, Idaho
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46115-C6—Musselshell, Idaho
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Bare
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Andic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Garveson
  • PSC - 28 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2019
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vassar
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy over loamy, amorphic over isotic, frigid Typic Udivitrands
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 3 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/21/2016
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over residuum weathered from granite
  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - UT4
  • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN545 - western redcedar/wild ginger—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)
  • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/21/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Brian Gardner
  • 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
  • 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

    50

    1370

    295

    1395

    55

    6.4

    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N00155; observed in pit, small. discontinuous layer of MSH 1980 volcanic ash at bottom of horizon
    A—3 to 11 centimeters (1.2 to 4.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) ashy loam; 7 percent clay; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; many very fine irregular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N00156; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—11 to 34 centimeters (4.3 to 13.4 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) ashy sandy loam; 6 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 0.1 coarse roots throughout; many very fine irregular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N00157; observed in pit, small
    2Bw2—34 to 45 centimeters (13.4 to 17.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) coarse sandy loam; 6 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; many very fine irregular and few fine tubular pores; 1 percent very fine platy mica flakes, unspecified in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N00158; observed in pit, small
    2BC—45 to 65 centimeters (17.7 to 25.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loamy coarse sand; 5 percent clay; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; many very fine irregular and few very fine tubular and few fine tubular pores; 3 percent very fine platy mica flakes, unspecified in matrix; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method; 1 percent krotovinas and 1 percent lamellae (volume percent); gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N00159; observed in pit, small
    2C—65 to 108 centimeters (25.6 to 42.5 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) extremely stony loamy coarse sand; 3 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; many very fine irregular pores; 5 percent very fine platy mica flakes, unspecified in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 65 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-?-600 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method; 1 percent krotovinas (volume percent); gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 17N00160; observed in pit, small
    2R—108 to 115 centimeters (42.5 to 45.3 inches); bedrock; very rigid, very rigid; fragments. Lab sample # 17N00161; observed in pit, small