IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): VOLASH
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977WA039004
  • User Pedon ID: S1977WA039004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1977WA039004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3315
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38430
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 45.9692612
  • Std. Longitude: -121.5883942
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet south and 1200 feet east of the NW corner
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA039—Klickitat
  • MLRA: 6—Cascade Mountains, Eastern Slope
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA639—Klickitat County Area, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy, amorphic, frigid Humic Vitrixerands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - VOLASH
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - VOLASH
  • Classificaton Date - 9/12/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/12/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ACCI

    CAGA3

    LAOC

    Acer circinatum

    Carex garberi

    Larix occidentalis

    vine maple

    elk sedge

    western larch

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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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    722

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    0

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    O1—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A25794; moist when described;. needles, leaves, and twigs
    O2—1 to 4 centimeters (0.4 to 1.6 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A25795; moist when described;. partially decomposed needles, leaves, and twigs
    A11—4 to 14 centimeters (1.6 to 5.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25796; moist when described;
    A12—14 to 34 centimeters (5.5 to 13.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25797; moist when described;
    B1—34 to 67 centimeters (13.4 to 26.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25798; moist when described;
    B21—67 to 95 centimeters (26.4 to 37.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; 7 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25799; moist when described;
    B22—95 to 126 centimeters (37.4 to 49.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and 3.0 pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25800; moist when described;
    2R—126 to 200 centimeters (49.6 to 78.7 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A25801; moist when described;. olivine basalt