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Snyderville soil series

A representative soil profile of the Snyderville series in Idaho.

 

The Snyderville series consists of very deep, well drained soils that formed in alluvium or outwash derived from quartzite and sedimentary rocks. Snyderville soils are on stream terraces, outwash terraces, and fan remnants. Slopes range from 0 to 20 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 18 inches and the mean annual temperature is about 44 degrees F.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Argixerolls

 

Soil moisture regime: Xeric; dry for 45 to 60 days following the summer solstice

Mean annual soil temperature: 42 to 47 degrees F.

Mean summer soil temperature: 58 to 65 degrees F.

Surface rock fragments: 15 to 35 percent

Depth to lithic contact: Greater than 60 inches

Thickness of the mollic epipedon: 20 to 36 inches

Particle-size control section (weighted average):

Clay content: 22 to 27 percent

 

USE AND VEGETATION: The major use is livestock grazing. Native vegetation is mountain big sagebrush, wheatgrasses, bitterbrush and snowberry. In Utah the ecological site is Mountain Stony Loam (Mountain Big Sagebrush).

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: North central Utah and southestern Idaho. LRR B and E, MLRA 13 and 47. This series is of moderate extent.

 

For additional information about the survey area, visit:

www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/utah/UT613/0/U...

 

For a detailed soil description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/S/SNYDERVILLE.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

 

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Uploaded on May 8, 2021
Taken in January 2000