IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): EPHRATA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961WA025009
  • User Pedon ID: S1961WA025009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1961WA025009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34072
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 47.1169434
  • Std. Longitude: -119.2366638
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 28E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet west and 165 feet north of S1/4 corner
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA025—Grant
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA025—Grant County, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dale Snyder
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - EPHRATA
  • 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

    LEUCA4

    PHLOX

    PLANT

    Leucanthemum

    Phlox

    Plantago

    daisy

    phlox

    plantain

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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

    1

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    363

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    270

    203

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    10

    22.2

    -2.8

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07580. noncalcareous
    AC—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy loam; massive, and weak fine subangular blocky; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07581. noncalcareous
    C1—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07582. noncalcareous
    C2CA—53 to 58 centimeters (20.9 to 22.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; gravelly coarse sand; massive; hard when dry, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07583. violent effervescence with dilute HCl
    2C3—58 to 114 centimeters (22.8 to 44.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; gravelly coarse sand, cobbles; single grain; loose; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A07584. no roots; strong effervescence with dilute HCl only on undersides of some gravels, decreases in amount with depth