IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Norax
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989WA017005
  • User Pedon ID: 89WA017005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989WA017005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0335
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62268
  • 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: 47.4916649
  • Std. Longitude: -120.1750031
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23N
  • Range: 21E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA017—Douglas

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Norax
  • Classificaton Date - 1/11/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Broadax
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Calcic Argixeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    TRITI

    Triticum

    wheat

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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

    5

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    945

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    135

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog.
    A—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog.
    Bt1—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 55 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 90P01970. many clay films surface features on faces of peds
    2Btk1—64 to 99 centimeters (25.2 to 39.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 90P01971. common clay films surface features on faces of peds
    2Btk2—99 to 137 centimeters (39.0 to 53.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog. few clay films surface features on faces of peds
    2Bkqm—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; extremely hard; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog. strongly cemented duripan, augered through 6"