IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rollinger
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992WA037001
  • User Pedon ID: S1992WA037001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992WA037001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0381
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64620
  • 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: 46.8997231
  • Std. Longitude: -120.4530563
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 19E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 1150 feet E and 2400 feet N, SW corner
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA037—Kittitas
  • MLRA: 8—Columbia Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA637—Kittitas County Area, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Barbara J. Gordon
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Vitrandic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rollinger
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Renslow
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, mesic Aridic Calcic Argixerol
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1992
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: valley side
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 29B31
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CAFI

    POSE

    Carex filifolia

    Poa secunda

    threadleaf sedge

    Sandberg bluegrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—43

    28—137

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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

    30

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    689

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    45

    710

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    9

    21

    -4

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; fragments, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02351
    AB—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; fragments, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02352
    Bt1—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films on faces of peds; fragments, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02353. patchy - phpvsfiid 173640; patchy - phpvsfiid 173640
    Bt2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films on faces of peds; fragments, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02354. patchy - phpvsfiid 173641; patchy - phpvsfiid 173641
    Bt3—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films on faces of peds; fragments, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. patchy - phpvsfiid 173642; patchy - phpvsfiid 173642
    Bt4—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; strong medium prismatic, and moderate fine prismatic structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films on faces of peds; fragments, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. patchy - phpvsfiid 173643; patchy - phpvsfiid 173643
    Bt5—99 to 117 centimeters (39.0 to 46.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak fine prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films on faces of peds; fragments, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. patchy - phpvsfiid 173644; patchy - phpvsfiid 173644
    Bt6—117 to 137 centimeters (46.1 to 53.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; fragments, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. patchy - phpvsfiid 173645; patchy - phpvsfiid 173645
    C—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; fragments, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue.