IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brownlee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956ID045022
  • User Pedon ID: S1956ID045022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1106
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34165
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 44.0257072
  • Std. Longitude: -116.3001404
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet west and 440 feet south of center of the SE1/4
  • Location Description: Gem County, Idaho. Squaw Creek SCD. about 4 miles northeast of Sweet. Sample taken from a pit in a cultivated field of dry land alfalfa.
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID045—Gem
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID660—Gem County Area, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Leighty
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Ultic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 22
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brownlee
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brownlee
  • Classificaton Date - 9/25/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/25/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

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    975

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    305

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    9.4

    23.9

    -1.7

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    Emmett station

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    AP—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; weak very thin platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08379
    A12—23 to 24 centimeters (9.1 to 9.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; weak very thin platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08380
    A12—24 to 33 centimeters (9.4 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; weak and moderate fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 very fine and fine pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A08381
    B1—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; weak and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 fine pores; on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A08382. continuous - phpvsfiid 181589; patchy - phpvsfiid 181590; continuous - phpvsfiid 181589; patchy - phpvsfiid 181590
    B21—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak and moderate coarse subangular blocky, and fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 0.5 medium and 21.0 fine pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08383. continuous - phpvsfiid 181591; continuous - phpvsfiid 181591
    B22—58 to 89 centimeters (22.8 to 35.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; weak and moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate and strong fine and medium subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 21.0 very fine and fine and 21.0 medium pores; brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry, clay films on vertical faces of peds and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A08384. continuous - phpvsfiid 194293; continuous - phpvsfiid 194294; continuous - phpvsfiid 194293; continuous - phpvsfiid 194294
    B23—89 to 119 centimeters (35.0 to 46.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; 0.5 fine pores; clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, thymol-blue; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A08385. continuous - phpvsfiid 194295; continuous - phpvsfiid 194295
    B3C1—119 to 132 centimeters (46.9 to 52.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; fine gravelly coarse sandy loam; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 40A08386
    C1—132 to 178 centimeters (52.0 to 70.1 inches); fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 40A08387
    R—178 to 200 centimeters (70.1 to 78.7 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A08388