IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Thetis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980WA037004
  • User Pedon ID: S1980WA037004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0312
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48090
  • Print Date: 11/25/2024

    • 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: 47.2866669
  • Std. Longitude: -121.2338867
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 1330 feet S and 2280 feet W of the NE corner
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA037—Kittitas
  • MLRA: 6—Cascade Mountains, Eastern Slope
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA637—Kittitas County Area, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Thetis
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal Typic Cryorthod
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1980
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    62

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    890

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    45

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    O1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); muck; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.
    A2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loamy sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, bromcresol purple; abrupt wavy boundary.
    B21ir—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak coarse granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine irregular pores; 10 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 30 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, bromcresol purple; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01615
    B22—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 30 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, bromcresol purple; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01616
    B23—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, bromcresol purple; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01617
    B3—56 to 122 centimeters (22.0 to 48.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, bromcresol purple; clear wavy boundary.
    c—122 to 157 centimeters (48.0 to 61.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 0.1 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, bromcresol purple.