IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Walla Walla
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1951WA071003
  • User Pedon ID: S1951WA071003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1025
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34084
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 46.1233330
  • Std. Longitude: -118.3013916
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 36E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: SW, SW
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA071—Walla Walla
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA071—Walla Walla County, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, subactive, mesic Typic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Walla Walla
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1951
  • Classifier - Thuso Thoothe
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1951 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—41

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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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    366

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    45

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; fine granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07658
    Bw1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07659
    Bw2—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07660
    Bw3—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07661
    Bw4—86 to 107 centimeters (33.9 to 42.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; massive; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07662
    Bk1—107 to 137 centimeters (42.1 to 53.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt; massive; very friable; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A07663. contains a few flecks of lime
    Bk2—137 to 178 centimeters (53.9 to 70.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt; massive; very friable; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A07664. contains more lime than the horizon above
    Bk3—178 to 213 centimeters (70.1 to 83.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; massive; very friable; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A07665. loess
    2C—213 to 244 centimeters (83.9 to 96.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) silt loam; massive; very firm; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A07666. contains some light gray lime veins and flecks; may not be loess