IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mushel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2016ID057001
  • User Pedon ID: S2016ID057001E
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N1901
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87735
  • User Project ID: 2016proj002
  • Project Name: MLRA 43A - DSP - Response of dynamic soil properties to stand structure on Vassar series, Idaho
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 46.9251389
  • 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
  • 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. Lab sample # 16N08744
    A—2 to 9 centimeters (0.8 to 3.5 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) ashy silt loam; 12 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 16N08745
    Bw1—9 to 28 centimeters (3.5 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) ashy silt loam; 12 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 2.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots and 0.2 coarse roots; 2.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 16N08746
    Bw2—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) ashy silt loam; 14 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 1.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 16N08747
    2Bt1—43 to 59 centimeters (16.9 to 23.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 8 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 0.3 very fine roots and 0.3 fine roots; 3.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments. Lab sample # 16N08748
    2Bt2—59 to 63 centimeters (23.2 to 24.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 3.0 very fine irregular and 1.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter granite fragments.