IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beckley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986WA075008
  • User Pedon ID: 86WA075008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986WA075008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0700
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58994
  • 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: 46.7842903
  • Std. Longitude: -118.1602478
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 37E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 2,100 feet E and 700 feet N of SW corner
  • Location Description: About 2 mi NW of Hooper, WA.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA075—Whitman
  • MLRA: 8—Columbia Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. E. Reedy, Rev. By H. Gentry and R. J. Engel
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beckley
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed Calcic Haploxerolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace—outwash or marine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1986 (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

    STCO4

    Agropyron spicatum

    Stipa comata

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

    mollic epipedon

    0—0

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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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    433

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    135

    3

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    10

    22

    -1

    11

    23

    0

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    1A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; loam; weak medium platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04081. many very fine roots
    1A—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; loam; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04082. many very fine roots
    1AB—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04083. many very fine roots
    1Bw—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04084. many very fine roots
    1Bw—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04085. common very fine roots
    2Bk—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; loamy sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04086. common very fine roots
    2C—102 to 216 centimeters (40.2 to 85.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, moist; coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P04087