IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SAGEMOOR
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961WA025008
  • User Pedon ID: S1961WA025008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1961WA025008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0977
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34036
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 47.0716667
  • Std. Longitude: -119.1036148
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 30E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 975 feet east and 150 feet south of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Farm Unit 72, Block 42.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA025—Grant
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA025—Grant County, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sanford M. Anderson
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SAGEMOOR
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/12/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/12/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    ARTEM

    BRTE

    CHRYS9

    Artemisia

    Bromus tectorum

    Chrysothamnus

    sagebrush

    cheatgrass

    rabbitbrush

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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

    5

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    361

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    180

    203

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    10.6

    25

    -3.3

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 interstitial pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07326. noncalcareous
    B2—13 to 46 centimeters (5.1 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07327. noncalcareous
    C1CA—46 to 51 centimeters (18.1 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07328. strongly effervescent with dilute HCl
    C2CA—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silt loam; fine platy structure; hard when dry, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A07329. violent effervescence with dilute HCl
    C3—74 to 114 centimeters (29.1 to 44.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; interstitial pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A07330. strongly effervescent with dilute HCl; few discontinuous laminations
    C4—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; silt loam; fine platy structure; hard when dry, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07331. strong effervescence with HCl where lime occurs in the veins