IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oliphant
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985WA075003
  • User Pedon ID: 85WA075003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1985WA075003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0065
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57870
  • Print Date: 4/21/2025

    • 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: 46.7088890
  • Std. Longitude: -117.7791672
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 40E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 1,150 feet East and 2,200 feet North of SW corner
  • Location Description: About 7 mi SW of Dusty, WA
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA075—Whitman
  • MLRA: 8—Columbia Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. Gentry, R. Engel, A. Busacca, B. Frazier
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oliphant
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed Calcic Haploxerolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGSP

    FEID

    POSE

    Agropyron spicatum

    Festuca idahoensis

    Poa secunda

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    Idaho fescue

    Sandberg bluegrass

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—94

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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

    13

    —

    —

    549

    —

    225

    36

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    10

    22

    -1

    11

    23

    0

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    1Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P00324
    1Ap2—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00325
    1A—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00326
    1AB—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00327
    1Bw1—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00328
    1Bw2—81 to 94 centimeters (31.9 to 37.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00329
    1Bk1—94 to 112 centimeters (37.0 to 44.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) crushed, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct white (10YR 8/1) carbonate coats in root channels and/or pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00330. Disseminated lime in matrix; few very coarse cicada casts.; common lime or carbonate coats surface features in root channels and/or pores; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 219645; continuous - phpvsfiid 219645
    1Bk2—112 to 137 centimeters (44.1 to 53.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent irregular carbonate nodules; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00331. Disseminated lime in matrix.; very few very fine and fine lime nodules concentrations; effervescence is continuous
    1Bk3—137 to 147 centimeters (53.9 to 57.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) crushed, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent prominent white (10YR 8/1) carbonate coats on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00332. Few very coarse cicada casts.; common lime or carbonate coats surface features on faces of peds and in pores; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 219646; continuous - phpvsfiid 219646
    1Bkqm—147 to 152 centimeters (57.9 to 59.8 inches); 90 percent white (10YR 8/1) interior and 10 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, 90 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; silt loam; massive; hard, firm by carbonates, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00333. Disseminated lime in matrix.; effervescence is continuous
    1Bk4—152 to 162 centimeters (59.8 to 63.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) crushed, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct white (10YR 8/1) carbonate coats in root channels and/or pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00334. common lime or carbonate coats surface features in root channels and/or pores; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 219647; continuous - phpvsfiid 219647
    1Bk5—162 to 218 centimeters (63.8 to 85.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) crushed, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00335. Common very coarse nodules that are coated with lime, disseminated lime in matrix.; effervescence is continuous
    1Bk6—218 to 231 centimeters (85.8 to 90.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct white (10YR 8/1) carbonate coats in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 86P00336. few lime or carbonate coats surface features in root channels and/or pores; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 219648; continuous - phpvsfiid 219648