IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kingtain
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986WA039004
  • User Pedon ID: 86WA039004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986WA039004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0057
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59353
  • 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: 45.9138870
  • Std. Longitude: -121.5361099
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet N and 2000 feet W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: Klickitat County, WA. 6 miles S of Trout Lakes
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA039—Klickitat
  • MLRA: 6—Cascade Mountains, Eastern Slope
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ed Haagen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy-skeletal, amorphic, frigid Humic Vitrixerands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kingtain
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kingtain
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal, frigid Andic Xerumbrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    ABGR

    ACCI

    PSME

    Abies grandis

    Acer circinatum

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    grand fir

    vine maple

    Douglas-fir

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

    umbric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—37

    124—178

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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

    30

    873

    135

    127

    5

    16

    -5

    4

    565906

    1A1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, dry; very gravelly loam; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 5.5 fine interstitial pores; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00313; dry when described;. many very fine roots throughout; many fine roots throughout
    1A2—12 to 37 centimeters (4.7 to 14.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; very gravelly loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 medium roots throughout; 5.5 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00314; dry when described;. many very fine roots throughout; common medium roots throughout
    1AB—37 to 65 centimeters (14.6 to 25.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dry; very gravelly loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular and 5.5 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00315; dry when described;. common very fine roots throughout; few coarse roots throughout
    1BA—65 to 124 centimeters (25.6 to 48.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dry; very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00316; dry when described;. common very fine roots; few medium roots throughout
    1Bt1—124 to 142 centimeters (48.8 to 55.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dry; extremely cobbly loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots between peds and 0.5 medium roots between peds; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00317; dry when described;. May be argillic horizon.; very few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine roots between peds; few medium roots between peds; patchy - phpvsfiid 221299; patchy - phpvsfiid 221299
    1Bt2—142 to 178 centimeters (55.9 to 70.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dry; extremely cobbly loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots between peds and 0.5 fine roots between peds; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 87P00318; dry when described;. few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few fine roots between peds; few medium roots between peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 221300; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 221300