IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bancroft
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959ID013009
  • User Pedon ID: S1959ID013009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1097
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34156
  • 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: 43.3207321
  • Std. Longitude: -113.6331024
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 24E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: Southeastern part of the Carey Kipuka, Craters of the Moon National Monument, 26 miles (via road) case of Carey, Blaine County, Idaho, west center
  • Location Description: The sample site occurs on an east-facing slope of 2 percent.
  • Map Unit: 1—Bancroft silt loam, 1 to 4 percent slopes
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID013—Blaine
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID780—Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: V. K. Hugie and H. B. Passey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Calcic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bancroft
  • PSC - 18 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bancroft
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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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    1530

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    330

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    5.6

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    15

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; weak thin platy structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08302
    A12—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A08303
    B2T—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08304. patchy - phpvsfiid 189257; patchy - phpvsfiid 189257
    C1CA—46 to 91 centimeters (18.1 to 35.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; 21.0 roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A08305. secondary carbonates disseminated; few weakly carbonate-cemented lenses near the bedrock.
    2R—91 to 0 centimeters (35.8 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A08306. Basalt bedrock.