IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brickmill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992WA037016
  • User Pedon ID: S1992WA037016
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992WA037016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0202
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65546
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 47.0038872
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5127792
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 19E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 1100 feet E and 1900 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: About 3 miles NE of Ellensburg.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA037—Kittitas
  • MLRA: 44—Northern Rocky Mountain Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Herman Gentry, Terry Aho, and Barbara Gordon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brickmill
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed Typic Argiaquolls
  • PSC - 30 to 97 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    ARTRW

    BACA3

    Agropyron spicatum

    Artemisia tridentata var. wyomingensis

    Balsamorhiza careyana

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    Carey's balsamroot

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—124

    30—97

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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

    2

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    549

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    180

    250

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    9

    21

    -4

    10

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, dry; gravelly loam; moderate coarse platy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent faint iron stains on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume rounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01587. patchy - phpvsfiid 178261; patchy - phpvsfiid 178261
    A—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, dry; gravelly loam; moderate coarse platy parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent faint iron stains on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume rounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01588. patchy - phpvsfiid 178262; patchy - phpvsfiid 178262
    Bt1—30 to 71 centimeters (11.8 to 28.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 30 percent distinct iron stains on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume rounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01589. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 178263; patchy - phpvsfiid 178264; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 178263; patchy - phpvsfiid 178264
    Bt2—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, dry; extremely gravelly sandy clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 21.0 fine and medium interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 75 percent prominent iron stains on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume rounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01590. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192912; patchy - phpvsfiid 192913; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192912; patchy - phpvsfiid 192913
    BC—97 to 124 centimeters (38.2 to 48.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; extremely gravelly sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 75 percent prominent iron stains on sand and gravel; 20 percent by volume rounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01591. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192914; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192914
    2C—124 to 203 centimeters (48.8 to 79.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; extremely gravelly sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent faint iron stains on sand and gravel; 5 percent by volume rounded 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume rounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 93P01592. patchy - phpvsfiid 192915; patchy - phpvsfiid 192915