IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Colockum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988WA037007
  • User Pedon ID: 88WA037007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988WA037007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0442
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60560
  • 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: 46.6811104
  • Std. Longitude: -120.1530533
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 21E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 1025 feet W and 850 feet N of SE corner
  • Location Description: About 19 miles E of Selah, WA.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA037—Kittitas
  • MLRA: 8—Columbia Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Cain
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Calcic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Colockum
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colockum
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1988 (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

    FEID

    Agropyron spicatum

    Artemisia tripartita

    Festuca idahoensis

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    threetip sagebrush

    Idaho fescue

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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

    7

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    988

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    315

    330

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    8

    21

    -4

    9

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    1A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02273. many very fine and 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) crushed, moist; loam; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical iron concretions and 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; 7.19999981 Cresol red; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02274. few fine iron concretions concentrations; few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common very fine and fine roots
    1Bt1—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) crushed, moist; loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical iron concretions and 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; 7.4000001 Bromthymol blue; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02275. few fine iron concretions concentrations; few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223097; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223097
    1Bt2—51 to 84 centimeters (20.1 to 33.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical iron concretions and 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; 7.5999999 Cresol red; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, bromthymol blue; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 88P02276. few fine iron concretions concentrations; few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223098; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223098
    1Btk1—84 to 109 centimeters (33.1 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) crushed, moist; gravelly clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine spherical iron concretions and 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, cresol red; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 88P02277. common fine iron concretions concentrations; common fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223099; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223099
    1Btk2—109 to 132 centimeters (42.9 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine spherical iron concretions and 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, cresol red; abrupt irregular boundary. common fine iron concretions concentrations; common fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223100; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223100
    2Btk3—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, moist; clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine spherical iron concretions and 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, cresol red. common fine iron concretions concentrations; common fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; many clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 232630; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 232630