IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nespelem
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 81WA047002
  • User Pedon ID: 81WA047002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - LIMS
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0445
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49289
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 48.1187301
  • Std. Longitude: -118.8744651
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30N
  • Range: 31E
  • Section: 11
  • Map Unit: 303—Nespelem-Emdent silt loams complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA047—Okanogan
  • MLRA: 8—Columbia Plateau
  • Regional Office: 1—Portland, OR
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-PAS—Pasco, Washington
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA648—Colville Indian Reservation (Parts of Ferry and Okanogan Counties), Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48118-A7—Keller Butte, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, mesic Calcic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nespelem
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/17/2016
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nespelem
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, mesic Calcic Haploxerolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/1981
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—23

    23—51

    —23—

    —28—
    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

    10

    —

    —

    725

    —

    260

    330

    —

    122

    8.3

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silt loam; 14 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots and few medium roots and many fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02524
    Bk—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; silt loam; 14 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots and common fine roots; 11 percent fine dendritic noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02525
    2C1—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; massive; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02526. material is varves
    2C2—69 to 122 centimeters (27.2 to 48.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; silt loam; 16 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02527. material is varves