IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ATHENA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961WA013003
  • User Pedon ID: S1961WA013003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1961WA013003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1020
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34079
  • 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: 46.2627792
  • Std. Longitude: -118.0761108
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 38E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4, SE 1/4
  • Location Description: Columbia Soil Conservation District (WA-SCD-54). , 1200 feet N 28 degrees of Whiskey Creek bridge in cultivated field
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA013—Columbia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA613—Columbia County Area, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Eveard T. Harrison
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ATHENA
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1961 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BALSA

    FEID

    LUPIN

    Balsamorhiza

    Festuca idahoensis

    Lupinus

    balsamroot

    Idaho fescue

    lupine

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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

    24

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    472

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    203

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    A3—19 to 34 centimeters (7.5 to 13.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 1.0 coarse tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07622. worm holes and root channels filled with dark colored organic material and surface soil
    B21—34 to 54 centimeters (13.4 to 21.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 21.0 medium and coarse and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07623. worm holes filled with dark colored surface soil; patchy - phpvsfiid 197798; patchy - phpvsfiid 197798
    B22—54 to 70 centimeters (21.3 to 27.6 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 0.5 medium and coarse tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07624. dark colored organic matter and surface soil in worm holes and root channels; ped surfaces have one value less chroma than crushed material
    C1—70 to 95 centimeters (27.6 to 37.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07625. about 1 percent basalt fragments size of coarse sand
    AP—90 to 19 centimeters (35.4 to 7.5 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07621. few 1/2 to 2 inch basalt fragments
    C2CA—95 to 110 centimeters (37.4 to 43.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 roots; 3.0 medium pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07626. lime in veins and seams
    R—110 to 150 centimeters (43.3 to 59.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A07627. basalt bedrock with little fracturing; not sampled