IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Swede
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979ID003004
  • User Pedon ID: 79ID003004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0439
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47172
  • 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: 44.9847970
  • Std. Longitude: -116.2928590
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 819 meters N and 137 meters W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: West New Meadows 2 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-H3—New Meadows, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G.H.L., L.M.R., D.L.M., S.H., K.W.H.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Pachic Haplocryolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Swede
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/2020
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Archabal
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Cryumbrept
  • 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: mixed alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • 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 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    5

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    1180

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    90

    635

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    75

    6.4

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    6.9

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); 10YR 2/4 (10YR 2/4) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; silt loam; 27 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02380. common very fine and fine roots; many medium roots
    BAt1—20 to 35 centimeters (7.9 to 13.8 inches); 10YR 2/4 (10YR 2/4) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; clay films on nodules and clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P02381. About 50% of horizon has mixed materials from above. Old root channels about 2 to 10 inches in diameter round or oval shaped.; common very fine and fine roots
    BAt2—35 to 56 centimeters (13.8 to 22.0 inches); 10YR 2/4 (10YR 2/4) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; clay films on nodules and clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P02382. About 50% of horizon has mixed materials from above. Old root channels about 2 to 10 inches in diameter round or oval shaped.; common very fine and fine roots
    Bt1—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, dry; silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 5.5 fine interstitial pores; clay films on nodules and clay films on faces of peds and clay films in root channels and/or pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02383. Root channels make upper boundary wavy.; common very fine and fine roots
    Bt2—91 to 104 centimeters (35.8 to 40.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, dry; loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 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; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02384. common very fine and fine roots
    BCt—104 to 132 centimeters (40.9 to 52.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, dry; loam; 23 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 5.5 fine interstitial pores; clay films on nodules and clay films on faces of peds and clay films in root channels and/or pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02385. many very fine roots
    C—132 to 147 centimeters (52.0 to 57.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior, dry; silt loam; 22 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 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; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and 4 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 79P02386. Less than 5% gravel.; few fine roots; many very fine roots