IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Selah V
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988WA037013
  • User Pedon ID: 88WA037013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988WA037013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0448
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60566
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 46.5827789
  • Std. Longitude: -120.3377762
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 20E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet E and 2400 feet N of SW corner
  • Location Description: About 3 miles N of Moxee City, WA.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA037—Kittitas
  • MLRA: 7—Columbia Basin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Christopher Miller
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Selah V
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Xerollic Durorthids
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • 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

    4

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    460

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    180

    180

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    10

    23

    -3

    11

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; loam; weak coarse platy, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots between peds; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02296. common very fine roots between peds
    1AB—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; loam; moderate coarse platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02297. common very fine roots
    1Bw—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; loam; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate medium prismatic structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02298. common very fine roots; few coarse roots
    1Bk1—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) crushed, moist; gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. few fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common very fine roots; few coarse roots
    1Bkq—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; very gravelly loam; loose, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 fine 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; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Discontinuous lenses.; common very fine roots; few medium roots
    1Bk2—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; very gravelly loam; loose, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine spherical carbonate masses; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. common fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common very fine roots; few medium roots
    2Ckqm—79 to 89 centimeters (31.1 to 35.0 inches); fragments.