IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Reelow
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992WA037015
  • User Pedon ID: S1992WA037015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992WA037015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0201
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65545
  • 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: 47.1194458
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5561142
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet E and 700 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: About 5 miles NE of Ellensburg, WA.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA037—Kittitas
  • MLRA: 44—Northern Rocky Mountain Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Herman Gentry and Barbara Gordon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Reelow
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, montmorillonitic Abruptic Durixerolls
  • PSC - 5 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/1992
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/23/1992 (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

    ARRI2

    STTH2

    Agropyron spicatum

    Artemisia rigida

    Stipa thurberiana

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    scabland sagebrush

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—36

    5—36

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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

    4

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    683

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    180

    360

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    9

    21

    -4

    10

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; very cobbly clay loam; weak medium platy parts to weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 20 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 30 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01583
    Bt—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; gravelly clay loam; moderate medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; clay films; 20 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01584
    2Bt—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; very gravelly clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; clay films; 15 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 35 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01585
    3Bqm—36 to 45 centimeters (14.2 to 17.7 inches); strongly cemented; fragments. Lab sample # 93P01586