IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sohappy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988WA037014
  • User Pedon ID: 88WA037014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988WA037014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0449
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60567
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 46.7244453
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0083313
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 22E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 20 miles S of Vantage, 2300 feet W and 250 feet N of SE corner
  • Location Description: Yakima County, WA.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA037—Kittitas
  • MLRA: 7—Columbia Basin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Gordon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sohappy
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Xerollic Camborthids
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    48

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    396

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    0

    51

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    10

    23

    -3

    11

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    1A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silt loam; weak granular, and moderate granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02299. common very fine roots throughout
    1AB—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silt loam; weak subangular blocky, and moderate subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02300. many very fine roots throughout
    1BA 1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine prismatic structure; soft, loose, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02301. many very fine roots throughout
    2BA 2—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; gravelly silt loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium prismatic structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02302. many very fine roots throughout
    2B k1—64 to 104 centimeters (25.2 to 40.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; very cobbly loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. many very fine roots throughout
    3B k2—104 to 119 centimeters (40.9 to 46.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; extremely cobbly clay loam; massive; loose, loose, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; abrupt irregular boundary. few very fine roots throughout
    4R—119 to 129 centimeters (46.9 to 50.8 inches); fragments.