IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clerf
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988WA037005
  • User Pedon ID: 88WA037005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988WA037005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0440
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60558
  • 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: 46.8172226
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2844467
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 20E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet W and 2500 feet S of NE corner
  • Location Description: About 12 miles SE of Ellensburg, WA.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA037—Kittitas
  • MLRA: 8—Columbia Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Chris Miller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, smectitic, mesic Aridic Palexerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clerf
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clerf
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, montmorillonitic, mesic Aridic Pa
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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

    29

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    792

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    180

    280

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    9

    21

    -4

    11

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, dry; very cobbly loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine interstitial 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 wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02267. many very fine roots throughout
    1AB—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, dry; very gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02268. many very fine roots throughout
    1Bt1—15 to 31 centimeters (5.9 to 12.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; very gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 2.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 15 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) skeletans over cutans on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02269. few skeletans over cutans surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common very fine roots; few very fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 223093; patchy - phpvsfiid 223093
    1Bt2—31 to 56 centimeters (12.2 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, dry; extremely cobbly clay loam; strong fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 37 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds; 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 223094; patchy - phpvsfiid 223094
    1R—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); fragments.