IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amabilis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992WA037007
  • User Pedon ID: S1992WA037007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992WA037007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0193
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65537
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 47.2133331
  • Std. Longitude: -120.7305527
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20N
  • Range: 17E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: About 10 miles E of Cle Elum, 400 feet W and 1100 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: About 10 miles E of Cle Elum.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA037—Kittitas
  • MLRA: 44—Northern Rocky Mountain Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Terry Aho and Barbara Gordon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Amabilis
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Xeric Argialbolls
  • PSC - 36 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/21/1992
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/21/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    AGSP

    BASA3

    FEID

    LUPIN

    PURSH

    Agropyron spicatum

    Balsamorhiza sagittata

    Festuca idahoensis

    Lupinus

    Purshia

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    arrowleaf balsamroot

    Idaho fescue

    lupine

    bitterbrush

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    albic horizon

    0—64

    36—64

    64—66

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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

    3

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    747

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    180

    450

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    9

    21

    -4

    10

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; silt loam; 25 percent clay; 3 percent fine mottles; weak medium platy structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine interstitial and tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P01528
    AB—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine interstitial and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01529
    Bt1—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fine roots throughout; 21.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent faint skeletans on faces of peds and 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01530. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192906; patchy - phpvsfiid 192907; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192906; patchy - phpvsfiid 192907
    Bt2—53 to 64 centimeters (20.9 to 25.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fine roots throughout; 21.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent faint skeletans on faces of peds and in pores and 10 percent faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01531. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192909; patchy - phpvsfiid 192908; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192909; patchy - phpvsfiid 192908
    2E—64 to 66 centimeters (25.2 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dry; very gravelly silty clay loam; 40 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 30 percent distinct skeletans on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01532. patchy - phpvsfiid 192910; patchy - phpvsfiid 192910
    2Btb—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; clay; 55 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very fine roots throughout; 21.0 medium interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent prominent manganese or iron-manganese stains throughout and 30 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P01533. patchy - phpvsfiid 178230; patchy - phpvsfiid 192911; patchy - phpvsfiid 178230; patchy - phpvsfiid 192911
    Cd—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); 30 percent prominent manganese or iron-manganese stains throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 93P01534. patchy - phpvsfiid 178231; patchy - phpvsfiid 178231