IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mushel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2016ID057001
  • User Pedon ID: S2016ID057001B
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N1898
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87671
  • User Project ID: 2016proj002
  • Project Name: MLRA 43A - DSP - Response of dynamic soil properties to stand structure on Vassar series, Idaho
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 46.9251389
  • Std. Longitude: -116.3682222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 41N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 5
  • 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

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Andic Hapludalfs
  • 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 - Mushel
  • PSC - 28 to 78 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 - Mushel
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Andic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/2016
  • 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 loess and residuum weathered from granite
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - CT1

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN530 - western redcedar/queencup beadlily—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    63

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    962

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    270

    990

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    107

    6.4

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N08730
    A—2 to 7 centimeters (0.8 to 2.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) ashy silt loam; 7 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N08731
    Bw1—7 to 12 centimeters (2.8 to 4.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) ashy silt loam; 5 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; ; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N08732
    Bw2—12 to 28 centimeters (4.7 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) ashy silt loam; 4 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N08733
    2Bt—28 to 60 centimeters (11.0 to 23.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) silt loam; 7 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 very coarse roots and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 2.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 medium tubular pores; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent very fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter quartz fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 16N08734