IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Athena
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1951WA071004
  • User Pedon ID: S1951WA071004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1026
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34085
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 46.0663872
  • Std. Longitude: -118.2222214
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 37E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: NE, NE
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA071—Walla Walla
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA071—Walla Walla County, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Athena
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1951
  • Classifier - Thuso Thoothe
  • 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

    3

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    511

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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 gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silt loam; fine granular structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07667
    Bw1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; hard when dry, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07668
    Bw2—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; hard when dry, firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07669. structure breaks to coarse nuciform or blocky aggregates
    Bw3—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07670. horizon is more firm and more distinctly blocky or nuciform than above horizon; contains some spots and streaks that are slightly darker in color
    Bw4—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07671
    Bk—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak angular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A07672. no lime veins or specks; horizon is similar to above but more friable and slightly lighter colored
    C—152 to 183 centimeters (59.8 to 72.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; silt loam; friable; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A07673