IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ELIJAH
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969ID075004
  • User Pedon ID: S1969ID075004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1969ID075004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 69C0127
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43700
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 43.8788872
  • Std. Longitude: -116.7655563
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: About 88 meters (290 feet) south and 493 meters(1,620 feet) east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Payette County, Idaho. About 7 miles southeast of New Plymouth
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID075—Payette
  • MLRA: 11—Snake River Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID659—Payette County, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lawerence M. Rasmussen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Xerollic Durargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - ELIJAH
  • PSC - 18 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elijah
  • Classificaton Date - 9/25/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/25/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: DHY-4P-8
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    BRTE

    SALSO

    Bromus tectorum

    Salsola

    cheatgrass

    Russian thistle

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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

    3

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    552

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    225

    250

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    11

    21

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak thin platy parts to weak very fine granular structure; loose, friable; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00683
    B1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, friable; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00684
    B21T—18 to 26 centimeters (7.1 to 10.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00685
    B22T—26 to 38 centimeters (10.2 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, cresol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00686. patchy - phpvsfiid 180485; patchy - phpvsfiid 180485
    B3—38 to 50 centimeters (15.0 to 19.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine pores; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, cresol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00687
    C1SICA—50 to 60 centimeters (19.7 to 23.6 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, cresol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00688
    C2SICAM—60 to 66 centimeters (23.6 to 26.0 inches); white (10YR 8/1), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; massive; extremely hard; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00689
    C3SICA—66 to 110 centimeters (26.0 to 43.3 inches); white (10YR 8/1), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; massive; extremely hard; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00690
    C4—110 to 125 centimeters (43.3 to 49.2 inches); white (10YR 8/1), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; sand; single grain; loose; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 69C00691