IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lithic Xerorthents
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991ID015006
  • User Pedon ID: 91ID015006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991ID015006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0218
  • Print Date: 5/14/2024

    • 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: 43.8369446
  • Std. Longitude: -115.8258362
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: NW/NE
  • Map Unit: 422—Lithic Xerorthents-Dumps-Dystric Xeropsamments complex, gently rolling
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID015—Boise
  • MLRA: 43B—Central Rocky Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43115-G7—Idaho City, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ALH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Typic Xerorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lithic Xerorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gold Hill
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Typic Xerorthent
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1991
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1991 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIPO

    PSMEG

    AMAL2

    CEVE

    PUTR2

    SALIX

    SYOR2

    CARO5

    AMAL

    PIPO

    PUTR2

    Pinus ponderosa

    Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca

    Amelanchier alnifolia

    Ceanothus velutinus

    Purshia tridentata

    Salix

    Symphoricarpos oreophilus

    Carex rossii

    Amaranthus albus

    Pinus ponderosa

    Purshia tridentata

    ponderosa pine

    Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir

    Saskatoon serviceberry

    snowbrush ceanothus

    antelope bitterbrush

    willow

    mountain snowberry

    Ross' sedge

    prostrate pigweed

    ponderosa pine

    antelope bitterbrush

    tree

    tree

    shrub/vine

    shrub/vine

    shrub/vine

    shrub/vine

    shrub/vine

    grass/grasslike

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    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

    7

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    1247

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    315

    555

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    99

    7.2

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine vesicular and 2.5 fine and medium vesicular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. few coarse roots; common fine and medium roots
    AC—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.5 fine and medium vesicular and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. few coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    C1—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) extremely cobbly loamy sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 0.5 very fine void between rock fragments pores; 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P01421. few medium and coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    C2—51 to 122 centimeters (20.1 to 48.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) extremely cobbly sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine void between rock fragments pores; 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 92P01421. few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots