IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Drino
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988WA037008
  • User Pedon ID: 88WA037008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988WA037008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0443
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60561
  • Print Date: 11/28/2024

    • 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: 46.7099991
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9852753
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 23E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 22 miles S of Vantage, 1600 feet W and 800 feet N of SE corner
  • Location Description: Yakima County, WA.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA037—Kittitas
  • MLRA: 7—Columbia Basin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Gordon
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Xeric Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Drino
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grinrod V
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • 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

    45

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    244

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    180

    200

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    10

    23

    -3

    11

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very cobbly loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 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 # 88P02278. many very fine roots throughout
    1BA—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very gravelly loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine prismatic structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 5 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 # 88P02279. common very fine roots throughout
    1Bw1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very gravelly loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium prismatic structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 vesicular pores; 5 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 # 88P02280. common very fine roots throughout
    1Bw2—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very gravelly loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium prismatic structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine and medium interstitial 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 # 88P02281. few very fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout
    1Bw3—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very gravelly loam; weak fine and medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine and medium vesicular pores; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. few very fine roots throughout
    1Bw4—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; extremely stony loam; weak medium prismatic structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine and medium vesicular pores; 25 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 7.6, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. few very fine roots throughout
    1Bk—81 to 97 centimeters (31.9 to 38.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; extremely stony loam; weak medium prismatic structure; soft, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red; abrupt irregular boundary. few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1R—97 to 107 centimeters (38.2 to 42.1 inches); fragments.