LOCATION WOVER ID
Tentative Series
Rev. RK/BAG
05/2015
WOVER SERIES
The Wover series consists of very deep, poorly and very poorly drained soils that formed in residuum from travertine. Wover soils are on travertine terraces. Slope ranges from 0 to 3 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 450 millimeters and the mean annual air temperature is about 3.3 degrees C.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, carbonatic, frigid Histic Endoaquolls
TYPICAL PEDON: Wover mucky peat, 2 percent slope, in a pasture at 1,885 meters. When described on July 23, 1992 the soil was moist to 46 cm and saturated below. (Colors are for dry soil unless otherwise noted.)
Oe1--0 to 5 cm; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) mucky peat, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) moist; many very fine and fine roots; many very fine irregular pores; strongly effervescent; neutral (pH 7.3); abrupt smooth boundary
Oe2--5 to 23 cm; 60 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and 40 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) mucky peat, 60 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) and 40 percent very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) moist; many very fine and fine and few medium roots; many very fine irregular pores; 75 percent calcium carbonate equivalent; violently effervescent; neutral (pH 7.3); clear wavy boundary
Bg1--23 to 53 cm; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) loam, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) moist; common fine and medium faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) moist irregularly shaped iron masses; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky parting to strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky and slightly plastic; many very fine, common fine and few medium roots; many very fine irregular and tubular pores; 75 percent calcium carbonate equivalent; violently effervescent; slightly alkaline (pH 7.4); clear wavy boundary
Bg2--53 to 76 cm; pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) loam, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) moist; common medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) moist irregularly shaped iron masses; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky parting to moderate fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky and slightly plastic; common very fine, few fine and medium roots; many very fine irregular and tubular pores; 75 percent calcium carbonate equivalent; violently effervescent; slightly alkaline (pH 7.6); clear wavy boundary
Bg3--76 to 127 cm; pale yellow (2.5Y 8/3) fine sandy loam, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) moist; many fine and medium faint light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) moist irregularly shaped iron masses; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; common very fine and few fine roots; common very fine irregular and tubular pores; 75 percent calcium carbonate equivalent; violently effervescent; slightly alkaline (pH 7.6); clear smooth boundary
Bg4--127 to 150 cm; pale yellow (2.5Y 8/3) loamy sand, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) moist; many medium and coarse faint light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) moist irregularly shaped iron masses; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; few very fine and fine roots; many very fine irregular and tubular pores; 75 percent calcium carbonate equivalent; violently effervescent; slightly alkaline (pH 7.4)
TYPE LOCATION: Caribou County, Idaho; about 13.5 kilometers north of Soda Springs; 353 meters north and 318 meters west of the southeast corner of section 34, T. 7S., R. 42E.; China Hat, USGS topographic quadrangle; latitude, 42 degrees 46 minutes 05.4 seconds north and longitude, 111 degrees 32 minutes 26.9 seconds west, WGS84
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Mean annual soil temperature - 3.3 to 5.6 degrees C
Mean summer soil temperature - 15 to 18 degrees C
Thickness of histic epipedon - 20 to 38 cm
Particle-size control section-
Clay content - 5 to 15 percent
Calcium carbonate equivalent - 65 to 85 percent
Oe horizons
Reaction (pH) - 6.6 to 8.2
Thickness - 20 to 38 cm
Bg1 and Bg2 horizons
Hue - 2.5Y to 7.5YRValue - 5 to 8 dry, 3 to 7 moist
Chroma - 1 to 3 dry or moist
Texture - Loam, fine sandy loam, very fine sandy loam
Reaction (pH) - 7.4 to 8.2
Thickness - 43 to 53 cm
Bg3 and Bg4 horizons
Hue - 2.5Y or 10YR
Value - 7 or 8 dry, 6 or 7 moist
Chroma - 1 to 3 dry or moist
Texture - Very fine sandy loam, fine sandy loam, sandy loam, loamy sand
Reaction (pH) - 7.4 to 8.2
Thickness - 61 to 85 cm
COMPETING SERIES: There are no competing series
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Parent material - Residuum from travertine
Landscape - Valleys
Landform - Travertine terraces
Elevation - 1,765 to 1,905 meters
Slope - 0 to 3 percent
Mean annual precipitation - 400 to 500 mm
Mean annual air temperature - 2.2 to 4.4 degrees C
Frost free duration - 60 to 90 days
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
Formation - No aquic conditions (well drained); on slightly higher adjacent travertine terraces and old drainageways
Foundem - No aquic conditions (well drained); on adjacent loess covered basalt flows
Lostine - No aquic conditions (well drained); on adjacent loess covered basalt flows
Vertine - Lithic contact at 50 to 100 cm (travertine); above Wover soils on travertine terraces
Wospring - No histic epipedon, on similar landforms but slightly higher
DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY: (Ksat)
Drainage class - Poorly and very poorly drained
Depth to water table - 0 to 46 cm December through August
Ksat - High to very high
USE AND VEGETATION:
Use - Nonirrigated meadow pasture, wild life habitat
Potential natural vegetation - Shrubby cinquefoil, sedges, riparian grasses, moss
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Southeastern Idaho; MLRA 13; small extent
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Portland, Oregon
SERIES PROPOSED: Caribou County, Idaho; 2010
REMARKS:
Particle-size control section - 25 to 100 cm
Histic epipedon - 0 to 23 cm
Mollic epipedon - 23 to 53 cm; this pedon meets mollic criteria by having a fine-earth fraction that has a calcium carbonate equivalent of 40 percent or more and a color value, moist of 5 or less
Soil temperature regime - Frigid
Soil moisture regime - Aquic
Carbonatic mineralogy - Particle-size control section averages greater than 40 percent calcium carbonate equivalent
National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.