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Zohner soil series

A representative soil profile of the Zohner series. (Soil Survey of Teton Area, Idaho and Wyoming; by Carla B. Rebernak, Natural Resources Conservation Service)

 

The Zohner series consists of very deep, poorly drained soils that formed in mixed alluvium. Zohner soils are on flats and terraces on valley floors and the lower parts of fan remnants. Slopes are 0 to 2 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 406 millimeters and the mean annual air temperature is about 5 degrees C.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, carbonatic Calcic Cryaquolls

 

Mollic epipedon thickness: 18 to 46 cm

Depth to calcic: 5 to 13 cm

Depth to redoximorphic features (iron concentrations/depletions): 0 to 27 cm

Control section total clay: 20 to 40 percent

Control section carbonate clay: 2 to15 percent

Control section noncarbonate clay: 18 to 25 percent

Depth to sandy-skeletal material (3Bg or 3Cg horizon): 100 to 152 cm

Rock fragments: Where fragments are present, there are 15 to 30 percent gravel in the

particle size control section and 15 to 70 percent below the particle size control

section.

Soil reaction: Slightly alkaline to moderately alkaline

Mean annual soil temperature: 3.9 to 7.2 degrees C.

Mean summer soil temperature: 6.1 to 12.8 degrees C. cryic soil temperature regime

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major uses: Wet meadow pasture

Range/ecological site: R013XY039ID

Dominant native vegetation: Shrubby cinquefoil, slender wheat grass, baltic rush (and

other rushes), sedges, redtop, and scattered willows

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: Eastern Idaho, MLRA 13

Extent: These soils are not extensive

 

For additional information about the survey area, visit:

www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/wyoming/TetonI...

 

For a detailed soil description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/Z/ZOHNER.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

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