IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Opportunity
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998WA063005
  • User Pedon ID: S1998WA063005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0332
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11191
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 47.6745567
  • Std. Longitude: -117.0794907
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 45E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: about 2300 feet east, 1000 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: About 1.25 miles north of Liberty Lake and about 2300 feet east.
  • Map Unit: 3080—Opportunity very gravelly ashy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA063—Spokane
  • MLRA: 44A—Northern Rocky Mountain Valleys
  • Regional Office: NW—Northwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-MOS—Moscow, Idaho
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA063—Spokane County, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47117-F1—Liberty Lake, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carol B. Miller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Vitrandic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Opportunity
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/10/2012
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Garrison
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash and glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: outwash terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/27/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: B-15
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    volcanic glass

    cambic horizon

    0—48

    0—74

    48—114

    —48—

    —74—

    —66—
    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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    645

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    350

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; very gravelly loam; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 8.0 very fine roots; 0.8 very fine dendritic tubular and 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 50 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.1, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P01696; observed in trench
    A1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; very gravelly loam; 14 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 8.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 0.8 very fine interstitial and 0.8 fine interstitial and 3.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 50 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P01697; observed in trench
    A2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots; 0.8 very fine interstitial and 0.8 medium interstitial and 0.8 fine dendritic tubular and 0.8 fine interstitial pores; 55 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P01698; observed in trench
    Bw1—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; very gravelly loam; 13 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.8 medium roots and 0.8 coarse roots; 3.0 medium interstitial and 0.8 fine dendritic tubular and 0.8 coarse interstitial pores; 60 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P01699; observed in trench
    Bw2—74 to 114 centimeters (29.1 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; extremely gravelly sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-100-249 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 60 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P01700; observed in trench
    C1—114 to 140 centimeters (44.9 to 55.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; 4 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 0.8 very fine roots; 8.0 very fine interstitial and 8.0 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 250-300-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-100-249 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 55 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P01701; observed in trench
    C2—140 to 157 centimeters (55.1 to 61.8 inches); extremely gravelly coarse sand; 4 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 0.8 very fine roots; 8.0 very fine interstitial and 8.0 fine interstitial pores; nonflat rounded indurated mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-100-249 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 80 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.3, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 99P01702; observed in trench