IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tagear
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992WA017005
  • User Pedon ID: S1992WA017005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992WA017005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0371
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65714
  • 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: 47.9058342
  • Std. Longitude: -119.8686142
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 24E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 of SW 1/4, 1300 feet N and 1550 feet E of the SW corner
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA017—Douglas
  • MLRA: 8—Columbia Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA017—Douglas County, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dean White, partial pdn. descr. DW-3-93; Bob Gillaspy, veg. (see WA-Range-5 #38, 10/6/92, loamy 9-12")
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy over loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Vitritorrandic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tagear
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tagear
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy over loamy, mixed, mesic Vitritorrandic Haplo
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/10/1992
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/10/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: D6
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACMI2

    AGSP

    ARTR4

    BASA3

    CHVI

    PHLOX

    PLPA

    STTH2

    Achillea millefolium

    Agropyron spicatum

    Artemisia tripartita

    Balsamorhiza sagittata

    Cheilanthes villosa

    Phlox

    Plagiobothrys parishii

    Stipa thurberiana

    common yarrow

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    threetip sagebrush

    arrowleaf balsamroot

    villous lipfern

    phlox

    Parish's popcornflower

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—61

    61—91

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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

    28

    213

    106.7

    658

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    315

    305

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    A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; fine sandy loam; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # 93P02802. Tested for organic carbon and pH.
    A2—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; sandy loam; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # 93P02803. Tested for organic carbon and pH.
    BA—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; coarse sandy loam; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments. Lab sample # 93P02804. Tested for organic carbon and pH.
    Bw1—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; coarse sandy loam; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments. No sample received.
    Bw2—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; coarse sandy loam; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments. Auger stopped by pebble at 36"; no sample received.