IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Swede
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979ID003002
  • User Pedon ID: 79ID003002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0437
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47170
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 44.9956500
  • Std. Longitude: -116.2300083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 409 meters N and 24 meters W of SE corner
  • Location Description: NE New Meadows 5 km.
  • Map Unit: 193—Swede loam, 4 to 12 percent slopes
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID003—Adams
  • MLRA: 43B—Central Rocky Mountains
  • Regional Office: NW—Northwest
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID656—Adams-Washington Area, Parts of Adams and Washington Counties, Idaho
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44116-H2—Meadows, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G.H.L., L.M.R., D.L.M., S.H., K.W.H.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive Typic Argicryolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Swede
  • PSC - 61 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2020
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Swede
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Argic Cryoboroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1979
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from basalt
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainbase
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—33

    33—61

    61—163

    —33—

    —28—

    —92—
    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

    10

    —

    —

    1290

    —

    275

    735

    —

    65

    5

    —

    —

    5.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; loam; 20 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine and fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 5.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02368. 0 to 2 inches apart common very fine and fine roots more than 2 to 6 inches apart.; common very fine roots; many fine roots
    AB—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02369. Soil is mixed by squirrles and other rodent activity.; few fine roots; common very fine roots
    BAt—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; clay loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and 2.5 very fine tubular pores; clay films on nodules and clay films on faces of peds and clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02370. Soil is mixed by ground squirrels and other rodent activity.; few fine roots; common very fine roots
    Bt1—61 to 102 centimeters (24.0 to 40.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, dry; clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and 5.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 55 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds and 55 percent slickensides (pedogenic) in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02371. many intersecting slickensides surface features on faces of peds; many intersecting slickensides surface features in root channels and/or pores; few fine roots; many very fine roots
    Bt2—102 to 132 centimeters (40.2 to 52.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; clay loam; 38 percent clay; weak medium and coarse prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and 5.5 fine and medium interstitial pores; 55 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds and 55 percent slickensides (pedogenic) in root channels and/or pores; 7 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02372. many intersecting slickensides surface features on faces of peds; many intersecting slickensides surface features in root channels and/or pores; few fine roots; many very fine roots
    Bt3—132 to 163 centimeters (52.0 to 64.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; clay films on nodules and clay films on faces of peds and clay films in root channels and/or pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 79P02373. Less than 5% cobbles.; many very fine roots