IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ritzville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991WA001005
  • User Pedon ID: S1991WA001005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0077
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64316
  • 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: 47.1958351
  • Std. Longitude: -118.4944458
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20N
  • Range: 34E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 1760 feet N and 500 feet W of SE 1/4
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA001—Adams
  • MLRA: 8—Columbia Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA001—Adams County, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Calciorthidic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ritzville
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ritzville
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, mesic Calciorthidic Haploxero
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/20/1991
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/20/1991 (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
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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots; 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P00553
    A—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P00554
    Bw1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P00555
    Bw2—51 to 79 centimeters (20.1 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P00556
    Bw3—79 to 109 centimeters (31.1 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P00557
    Bk—109 to 130 centimeters (42.9 to 51.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P00558
    2Bkgm—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 92P00559. strongly cemented