IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): WARDEN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961WA025011
  • User Pedon ID: S1961WA025011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1961WA025011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1029
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34088
  • 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: 46.9952774
  • Std. Longitude: -119.0883331
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 30E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet east of 1320 feet south of the N1/4 corner
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA025—Grant
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA025—Grant County, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sanford Anderson
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - WARDEN
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/15/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/15/1961 (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

    BRTE

    Bromus tectorum

    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

    3

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    372

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    90

    203

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    10.6

    25

    -3.3

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    AP—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07689. noncalcareous
    B2—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07690. noncalcareous
    C1CA—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07691. few hard, firm discontinuous laminations; violent effervescence with dilute HCl; lime is segregated in laminations, pores, and root channels
    C2—71 to 99 centimeters (28.0 to 39.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07692. strong effervescence with dilute HCl
    C3—99 to 122 centimeters (39.0 to 48.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07693. strong effervescence with dilute HCl; has one discontinuous layer of laminated silt
    C4—122 to 160 centimeters (48.0 to 63.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A07694. stratified with discontinuous layers of silt loam; intermittently strong effervescence with dilute HCl; 1/10 inch layer of white pumaceous very fine sand or glass included in this layer