IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Portneuf
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1962ID077009
  • User Pedon ID: S1962ID077009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1962ID077009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1073
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34132
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 32E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Fort Hall Indian Reservation
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID077—Power
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID710—Fort Hall Area, Idaho, Parts of Bannock, Bingham, Caribou, and Power Counties

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Durinodic Xeric Haplocalcids
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Portneuf
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Durinodic Xeric Haplocalcids
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over alluvium and/or lacustrine deposits
  • Landform: upland terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/25/1962 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGCR

    ARTR2

    BRTE

    POSE

    PSSP6

    Agropyron cristatum

    Artemisia tridentata

    Bromus tectorum

    Poa secunda

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    crested wheatgrass

    big sagebrush

    cheatgrass

    Sandberg bluegrass

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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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

    0.5

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    1408

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    241

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    9.2

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    A11—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); light grayish olive (10Y 6/2) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish olive (10Y 4/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; moderate very fine platy, and weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and 21.0 micro pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08077
    B1—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and 21.0 micro and 0.5 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08078
    B2—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 micro pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08079
    B3—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); 10YR 6/7 (10YR 6/7), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium and coarse roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 micro pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08080. There are hard cicada soil nodules in this horizon.
    Cac1—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 micro tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08081. There are hard cicada soil nodules in this horizon.
    Cac2—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 micro tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08082. There are hard cicada soil nodules in this horizon.
    Cac3—81 to 114 centimeters (31.9 to 44.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 micro tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08083
    Cac4—114 to 160 centimeters (44.9 to 63.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 micro tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08084
    Cac5—160 to 203 centimeters (63.0 to 79.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 micro tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 40A08085