IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Norax
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989WA017018
  • User Pedon ID: 89WA017018
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989WA017018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0221
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61325
  • 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: 47.6652794
  • Std. Longitude: -120.1511078
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 21E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4, SW 1/4
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA017—Douglas

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • 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 #: 18
  • 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 - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • 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

    16

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P01289. few fine roots; common very fine roots
    Bw—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P01290. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; common very fine roots
    Bt1—23 to 56 centimeters (9.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; strong coarse prismatic, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 55 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P01291. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots
    Bt2—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 55 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog. many clay films surface features on faces of peds
    Btk—86 to 137 centimeters (33.9 to 53.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; sandy loam; extremely hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog.
    Bqm—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; sandy loam; massive; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog.