IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wacota
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987WA021002
  • User Pedon ID: 87WA021002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1987WA021002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0499
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59794
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 46.6972237
  • Std. Longitude: -118.4647217
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 35E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 350 feet W and 1750 feet N of the SE corner
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA021—Franklin
  • MLRA: 8—Columbia Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. L. Olson and T. Reedy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Xerollic Camborthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wacota
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/11/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wacota-Flooded
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy, nonacid, mesic Xeric Torriorthent
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Position: drainageway
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    TRITI

    Triticum

    wheat

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—10

    10—48

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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

    0

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    365

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    28

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    10

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    11

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    1Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silt loam; weak coarse platy, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02642; moist when described;. many very fine and fine roots throughout
    1Bw—10 to 48 centimeters (3.9 to 18.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.3 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02643; dry when described;. many very fine and fine roots throughout
    1Bk—48 to 79 centimeters (18.9 to 31.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.3 fine and medium tubular pores; 11 percent medium irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02644; dry when described;. common medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    2Bkb—79 to 152 centimeters (31.1 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.3 fine and medium tubular pores; 11 percent medium irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red. Lab sample # 87P02645; dry when described;. common medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous