IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nansene
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987WA075002
  • User Pedon ID: 87WA075002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1987WA075002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0497
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59792
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • LOCATION

  • State: Washington
  • County: WA075—Whitman
  • MLRA: 8—Columbia Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. J. Engel
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nansene
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed Pachic Haploxerolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 10
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    TRAE

    Triticum aestivum

    common 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—84

    84—152

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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

    6

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    0

    33

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    8

    16

    -4

    9

    17

    0

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    433810

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    1Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02628. many very fine roots throughout; many fine roots throughout
    1Ap2—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02629. Plow pan.; few very fine roots between peds
    1AB—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 87P02630. few very fine roots throughout
    1BA1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02631. few very fine roots throughout
    1BA2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02632. few very fine roots throughout
    1Bw1—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02633. few very fine roots throughout
    1Bw2—84 to 117 centimeters (33.1 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02634. few very fine roots throughout
    1Bw3—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 87P02635. few very fine roots throughout