IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Palouse
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1951WA071005
  • User Pedon ID: S1951WA071005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1027
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34086
  • 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: 46.0483322
  • Std. Longitude: -118.1605530
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 37E
  • Section: 34
  • 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 Pachic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Palouse
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1951
  • Classifier - Thuso Thoothe
  • 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
    • 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
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    A—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; strong medium granular structure; hard when dry, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07674
    A1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; silt loam; strong coarse granular structure; very hard, very firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07675
    A/B—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; very hard, firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07676. structure breaks to medium blocky aggregates, which are slightly lighter colored when crumbled; some light gray coatings or speaks on vertical cracks
    Bw1—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; very hard, very firm; 30 percent clay films on upper surfaces of peds or rocks; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07677. structure breaks to moderately developed coarse blocky or nuciform aggregates; coatings light gray
    Bw2—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak prismatic structure; very hard, very firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07678
    Bw3—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07679. faint light gray specking on surface of aggregates
    Bw4—122 to 142 centimeters (48.0 to 55.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07680
    C—142 to 178 centimeters (55.9 to 70.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A07681