IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cheviot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988WA037004
  • User Pedon ID: 88WA037004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988WA037004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0439
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60557
  • 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: 46.8083344
  • Std. Longitude: -120.3375015
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 20E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet W and 750 feet N of SE corner
  • Location Description: About 12 miles SE of Ellensburg, WA.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA037—Kittitas
  • MLRA: 7—Columbia Basin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Cain
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cheviot
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Aridic Argixerolls
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1988 (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

    ARTR4

    POSE

    Agropyron spicatum

    Artemisia tripartita

    Poa secunda

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    threetip sagebrush

    Sandberg bluegrass

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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

    58

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    457

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    180

    230

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    9

    21

    -4

    11

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    1A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; very cobbly loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02263. many very fine roots; few medium roots
    1AB—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02264. many very fine roots; few medium roots
    1Bt1—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; very gravelly loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; 15 percent faint skeletans over cutans on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02265. few skeletans over cutans surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common very fine roots; few medium roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223090; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223090
    1Bt2—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; extremely gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; 15 percent faint skeletans over cutans on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02266. Few coarse roots.; few skeletans over cutans surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine roots; few medium roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223091; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223091
    1Bt3—71 to 104 centimeters (28.0 to 40.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; extremely gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Few coarse roots.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots; few medium roots; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223092; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223092
    1Bt4—104 to 122 centimeters (40.9 to 48.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; extremely gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. few very fine roots; few medium roots; effervescence is continuous
    1C—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; extremely gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine continuous tubular and 0.5 fine continuous tubular pores; 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red. few very fine roots; few medium roots; effervescence is continuous