IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MCGOWAN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958WA039007
  • User Pedon ID: S1958WA039007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0989
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34048
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 45.7702789
  • Std. Longitude: -121.3016663
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4, NE 1/4, SE 1/4, SE 1/4
  • Location Description: Six miles north of Lyle, Washington.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA039—Klickitat
  • MLRA: 6—Cascade Mountains, Eastern Slope
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA639—Klickitat County Area, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. O. Ness and F. E. Schlots
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Vitrandic Haploxeralfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - MCGOWAN
  • PSC - 18 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MCGOWAN
  • Classificaton Date - 4/24/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/24/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    8

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    762

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    1143

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    9.4

    18.9

    -0.6

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    O1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A07405. leaves, twigs, and needles
    O2—2 to 3 centimeters (0.8 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A07406. decomposing leaves, twigs, and needles
    A11—3 to 9 centimeters (1.2 to 3.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07407
    A12—9 to 21 centimeters (3.5 to 8.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07408. shots in this horizon are one value lower than the soil matrix material; inped pores
    B11—21 to 44 centimeters (8.3 to 17.3 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07409. inped pores; patchy - phpvsfiid 190019; patchy - phpvsfiid 190019
    B12—44 to 61 centimeters (17.3 to 24.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07410. inped pores; patchy - phpvsfiid 190020; patchy - phpvsfiid 190020
    B21—61 to 89 centimeters (24.0 to 35.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07411. inped pores; continuous - phpvsfiid 190021; continuous - phpvsfiid 190021
    B22—89 to 117 centimeters (35.0 to 46.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A07412. this horizon contains 5 to 10 percent weathered basaltic gravels; inped pores; continuous - phpvsfiid 190022; continuous - phpvsfiid 190022
    C—117 to 155 centimeters (46.1 to 61.0 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; loam; massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A07413. loam contains about 75 percent stone and rock; thin clay films coating gravel and stone