IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Delrio
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992WA017007
  • User Pedon ID: S1992WA017007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992WA017007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0373
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65716
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 47.9483337
  • Std. Longitude: -119.6350021
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 25E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 of SW 1/4, 800 feet N and 1550 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: pedon is on ground owned by the family.
  • 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-7-93; Bob Gillaspy, veg. (see WA-Range-5 #49, 10/8/92, loamy 9-12" cool)
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, mesic Aridic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Delrio
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Delrio
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, mesic Aridic Haploxeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/10/1992
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: kame
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • 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: E6
  • 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

    ARTR2

    ARTR4

    BASA3

    BRTE

    CHNA2

    ERIOG

    POSA12

    Achillea millefolium

    Agropyron spicatum

    Artemisia tridentata

    Artemisia tripartita

    Balsamorhiza sagittata

    Bromus tectorum

    Chrysothamnus nauseosus

    Eriogonum

    Poa sandbergii

    common yarrow

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    big sagebrush

    threetip sagebrush

    arrowleaf balsamroot

    cheatgrass

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    buckwheat

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—48

    48—114

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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

    10

    259

    167.6

    421

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    315

    279

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    A1—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; very fine sandy loam; nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # 93P02808. Tested for organic carbon, pH, acid oxalate, and glass count.
    A2—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; very fine sandy loam; nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. No sample received.
    Bw1—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, moist; very fine sandy loam; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. No sample received; texture is close to silt loam.
    Bw2—76 to 114 centimeters (29.9 to 44.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, moist; very fine sandy loam; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. No samples received; texture is close to silt loam.
    2BC—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) crushed, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) crushed, moist; very fine sandy loam; nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. No sample received; texture is close to silt loam; only diffuse carbonates in the matrix from p.m.; roots and this horizon extend to 60 or more inches.