IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elkheights
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992WA037017
  • User Pedon ID: S1992WA037017
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992WA037017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0203
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65547
  • Print Date: 4/22/2025

    • 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: 47.1100006
  • Std. Longitude: -120.7605591
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 17E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 2700 feet E and 2000 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: About 4 1/2 miles NW of Thorp.
  • 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 #: 17
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elkheights
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Pachic Argixerolls
  • PSC - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/21/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • 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

    ARTR2

    ARTR4

    FEID

    POCU3

    POSE

    Agropyron spicatum

    Artemisia tridentata

    Artemisia tripartita

    Festuca idahoensis

    Poa cusickii

    Poa secunda

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    big sagebrush

    threetip sagebrush

    Idaho fescue

    Cusick's bluegrass

    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—142

    48—142

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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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    671

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    225

    460

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    9

    21

    -4

    10

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; loam; weak medium platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01593
    A—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) 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 and medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular and 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01594
    Bt1—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 21.0 fine interstitial and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01595. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192916; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192916
    Bt2—71 to 104 centimeters (28.0 to 40.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 fine interstitial and 3.0 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; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01596. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192917; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192917
    2Bt3—104 to 142 centimeters (40.9 to 55.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; gravelly clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 25 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P01597. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192918; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192918
    3Bqm—142 to 152 centimeters (55.9 to 59.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 93P01598