Magic soil series

The Magic series consists of moderately deep, well drained soils that formed in material weathered from basalt. Magic soils are on lava plains and have slopes of 0 to 8 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 14 inches and the mean annual air temperature is about 41 degrees F.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, smectitic, frigid Vertic Haploxerepts

 

Depth to bedrock and thickness of the solum are 25 to 40 inches. The soil between depths of 4 and 12 inches is moist in some part in October or early November and remains moist until July. Mean annual temperature is 41 to 45 degrees F., and the mean summer soil temperature is 60 degrees to 65 degrees F.

 

USE AND VEGETATION: Mostly rangeland, some irrigated and dry-farmed hay and small grain. Vegetation is alkali sagebrush, Idaho fescue, and Sandberg bluegrass.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: South-central Idaho. The series is inextensive.

 

For additional information about Idaho soils, please visit:

storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/97d01af9d4554b9097cb0a477e04...

 

For a detailed soil description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/M/MAGIC.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#magic

 

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