IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): EPHRATA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961WA025010
  • User Pedon ID: S1961WA025010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1961WA025010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34071
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 47.1316681
  • Std. Longitude: -119.4472198
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 27E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 267 feet south and 174 feet east of the northwest 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 #: 10
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - EPHRATA
  • 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

    Artemisia

    Bromus tectorum

    sagebrush

    cheatgrass

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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

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    334

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    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); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07574. noncalcareous
    AC—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07575. noncalcareous
    C1—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07576. noncalcareous
    C2CA—53 to 86 centimeters (20.9 to 33.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly loamy sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A07577. violent effervescence with dilute HCl
    C3—86 to 97 centimeters (33.9 to 38.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 0.5 roots; interstitial pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07578. lime is concentrated on undersides of gravel and effervesces violently with dilute HCl; at the interface between the C2ca and the C3 horizons there is a thin discontinuous layer 1/4 inch to 1 inch thick that parallels the boundary; it is hard , firm and strongly calcareous
    2C4—97 to 114 centimeters (38.2 to 44.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; Error; single grain; loose; interstitial pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A07579. gravel is sandy; lime occurs only on undersides of gravel and effervesces violently with dilute HCl