IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): EPHRATA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961WA025016
  • User Pedon ID: S1961WA025016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34070
  • 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: 47.1155548
  • Std. Longitude: -119.4100037
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 27E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet south, 1200 feet west of north 1/4 corner
  • 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 #: 16
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - EPHRATA
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/16/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/16/1961 (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
    • 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

    2

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    330

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    180

    203

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    10.6

    25

    -3.3

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    AP—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 roots; interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07568. noncalcareous
    AP2—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07569. noncalcareous
    B2—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07570. noncalcareous
    C1CA—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 roots; interstitial pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07571. strong effervescence with dilute HCl
    2C2CA—66 to 102 centimeters (26.0 to 40.2 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), dry; single grain; loose; 0.5 roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07572. basalt sand and gravel with thick lime coatings on and between cobbles; strong effervescence with dilute HCl
    2C3—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), dry; single grain; loose; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A07573. no roots; basaltic sand and gravel with thick coatings of lime on underside of gravel; effervesces with dilute HCl only on lime coatings