IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Manastash
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992WA037012
  • User Pedon ID: S1992WA037012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992WA037012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0198
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65542
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 47.0297203
  • Std. Longitude: -120.4538879
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 19E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: About 4 miles E of Ellensburg, 200 feet W and 800 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: About 4 miles E of Ellensburg.
  • 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 #: 12
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Manastash
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Abruptic Aridic Durixerolls
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/21/1992
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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 - 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

    AGSP

    ARTR4

    ARTRW

    CHRYS9

    POLU3

    POSA12

    Agropyron spicatum

    Artemisia tripartita

    Artemisia tridentata var. wyomingensis

    Chrysothamnus

    Polystachya luteola

    Poa sandbergii

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    threetip sagebrush

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    rabbitbrush

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—56

    25—64

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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

    1

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    524

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    180

    250

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    9

    21

    -4

    10

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; loam; weak fine and medium platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P01564. 1/4" intermittent Mount St. Helen ash (1980)
    A—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 fine and medium interstitial and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01565
    Bt1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium interstitial and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, cresol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01566. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 178253; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 178253
    2Bt2—38 to 59 centimeters (15.0 to 23.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01567. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 178254; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 178254
    2Bt3—59 to 64 centimeters (23.2 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) crushed, moist; gravelly clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 75 percent prominent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01568. flecks of broken pan throughout horizon (silica flakes); continuous - phpvsfiid 178255; continuous - phpvsfiid 178255
    3Bqm—64 to 71 centimeters (25.2 to 28.0 inches); gravel; massive; weak, indurated; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P01569
    4Bkqm1—71 to 76 centimeters (28.0 to 29.9 inches); Error; massive; extremely strong; very fine roots top of horizon; 35 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, cresol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P01570
    4Bkqm2—76 to 81 centimeters (29.9 to 31.9 inches); Error; massive; extremely strong; 10 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 50 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments. Lab sample # 93P01571