IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Benwy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988WA037011
  • User Pedon ID: 88WA037011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988WA037011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0446
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60564
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 46.6597214
  • Std. Longitude: -120.3030548
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 20E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 1500 feet W and 1800 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: About 11 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 Aridic Durixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Benwy
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Selah
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • 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

    3

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    664

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    180

    250

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    8

    21

    -4

    11

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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; loam; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. many very fine roots throughout; few fine roots throughout
    1A2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; loam; moderate coarse platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; 5.5 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02290. many very fine roots throughout; few fine to coarse roots throughout
    1Bt—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; loam; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; 5.5 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02291. few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; many very fine roots throughout; few fine to coarse roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 232644; patchy - phpvsfiid 232644
    2Btk—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; gravelly clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky; 5.5 very fine roots between peds; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 37 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent prominent carbonate coats on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lime coatings on faces of peds and through root channels.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; many lime or carbonate coats surface features on faces of peds; many very fine roots between peds; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 223101; continuous - phpvsfiid 223101
    2Bk—56 to 89 centimeters (22.0 to 35.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; very gravelly loam; loose, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; abrupt smooth boundary. many very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    3Ckqm—89 to 99 centimeters (35.0 to 39.0 inches); fragments.