IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Roloff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987WA021003
  • User Pedon ID: 87WA021003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1987WA021003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0209
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60332
  • 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: 46.6250000
  • Std. Longitude: -118.3750000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 35E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 1500 feet E, 2300 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: on high basalt terrace.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA021—Franklin
  • MLRA: 8—Columbia Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Gehring and T. Reedy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Roloff
  • PSC - 25 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/11/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Roloff
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Aridic Haploxeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: mesa or butte
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—38

    38—66

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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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    370

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    45

    30

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    10

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    11

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    1Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, cresol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01100; dry when described;. many very fine roots throughout
    1Bw1—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01101; dry when described;. many very fine roots throughout
    1Bw2—38 to 66 centimeters (15.0 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, cresol red. Lab sample # 88P01102; dry when described;. many very fine roots throughout
    1R—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Secondary carbonates in basalt cracks.