IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mountireland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03-RPM-03
  • User Pedon ID: 03WA013001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 03-RPM-03
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0923
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15631
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 46.1199989
  • Std. Longitude: -117.8499985
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T7N
  • Range: 40E
  • Section: 6
  • Location Description: 15 miles southeast of Dayton, WA; 2 miles north of the Ski Bluewood Ski Area.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA013—Columbia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA714—Umatilla National Forest, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Neil Peterson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy over loamy, amorphic over isotic Alfic Vitricryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mountireland
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy over loamy, amorphic over isotic Alfic Vitricryands
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over basalt
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated basalt at 79cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/18/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ABGR

    ABLA

    CAGE2

    CARU

    PIEN

    VAME

    Abies grandis

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Carex geyeri

    Calamagrostis rubescens

    Picea engelmannii

    Vaccinium membranaceum

    grand fir

    subalpine fir

    Geyer's sedge

    pinegrass

    Engelmann spruce

    thinleaf huckleberry

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    51 - 102

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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

    4

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    180

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    824

    Touchet

    SNOTEL
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; very fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine granular parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04755; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, dry; very fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04756; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, dry; very fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04757; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    E—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face, very pale brown (10YR 8/4) broken face, dry; very fine sandy loam; 7 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N04758; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, dry; loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-20 millimeter basalt fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 03N04759; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 247211; continuous - phpvsfiid 247211
    R—79 to 89 centimeters (31.1 to 35.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small