IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mikkalo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986WA039008
  • User Pedon ID: 86WA039008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986WA039008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0061
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59357
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 45.9966660
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9513855
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 23E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet S and 500 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Klickitat County, WA. 16 miles E of Bickleton
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA039—Klickitat
  • MLRA: 8—Columbia Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ed Haagen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Calcidic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mikkalo
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mikkalo
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, mesic Calciorthidic Haploxero
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    ARTR2

    POSE

    Agropyron spicatum

    Artemisia tridentata

    Poa secunda

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    big sagebrush

    Sandberg bluegrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—38

    0—97

    38—66

    66—97

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    —-

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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

    3

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    305

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    135

    25

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    10

    21

    -2

    11

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    066808

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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, cresol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00337; dry when described;. many very fine and fine roots throughout
    1A2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00338; dry when described;. common very fine and fine roots throughout
    1BA—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00339; dry when described;. common very fine and fine roots throughout
    1Bw—38 to 66 centimeters (15.0 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 2.5 fine roots in cracks; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00340; dry when described;. common fine roots in cracks; few medium roots
    1Bk1—66 to 79 centimeters (26.0 to 31.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine roots in cracks; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00341; dry when described;. common fine roots in cracks
    1Bk2—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; hard, firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots top of horizon; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 51 percent by volume igneous, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, cresol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00342; dry when described;. few fine roots in mat at top of horizon
    1R—97 centimeters (38.2 inches); fragments. Weathered basalt.