IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kellerbutte
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000WA063003
  • User Pedon ID: S2000WA063003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000WA063003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 01P0252
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13084
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 47.8658333
  • Std. Longitude: -117.1972198
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 44E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: about 85 feet west and 2060 feet north of the southeast corner of
  • Location Description: 1.7 miles from gate on IEP road off Madison Road
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA063—Spokane
  • MLRA: 43—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA063—Spokane County, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47117-G2—Foothills, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sue Murphy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy over loamy-skeletal, glassy over mixed, frigid Typic Vitrixerands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kellerbutte
  • PSC - 5 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kellerbutte
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over colluvium derived from gneiss
  • Landform: mountain
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent strong weathered gneiss at 84cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Mt. Spokane Gneiss formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: ABGR/PHMA Habitat Type
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 10
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABGR

    ACGL

    AMAL

    ANPI

    ASTER

    CARU

    CESA

    FEID

    FRAGA

    HODI

    LOCI3

    MARE11

    MAST4

    PHMA5

    PIPO

    PSME

    PTAQ

    ROGY

    SALIX

    SYAL

    THOC

    Abies grandis

    Acer glabrum

    Amaranthus albus

    Anemone piperi

    Aster

    Calamagrostis rubescens

    Ceanothus sanguineus

    Festuca idahoensis

    Fragaria

    Holodiscus discolor

    Lonicera ciliosa

    Mahonia repens

    Maianthemum stellatum

    Physocarpus malvaceus

    Pinus ponderosa

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Pteridium aquilinum

    Rosa gymnocarpa

    Salix

    Symphoricarpos albus

    Thalictrum occidentale

    grand fir

    Rocky Mountain maple

    prostrate pigweed

    Piper's anemone

    aster

    pinegrass

    redstem ceanothus

    Idaho fescue

    strawberry

    oceanspray

    orange honeysuckle

    creeping barberry

    starry false lily of the valley

    mallow ninebark

    ponderosa pine

    Douglas-fir

    western brackenfern

    dwarf rose

    willow

    common snowberry

    western meadow-rue

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    weakly coherent

    indurated

    84 - 140

    140 - 165

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

    ochric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    volcanic glass

    cambic horizon

    0—15

    5—51

    5—51

    15—84

    —15—

    —46—

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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

    30

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    951

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    100

    81

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    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.; dry when described; observed in cut
    Oe—4 to 5 centimeters (1.6 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in cut
    A—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; ashy sandy loam; 40 percent sand; 9 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 very fine irregular and 10.0 fine tubular and 10.0 fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter gneiss fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 001; dry when described; observed in cut
    Bw1—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; ashy sandy loam; 40 percent sand; 9 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 very fine irregular and 10.0 fine tubular and 10.0 fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter gneiss fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 002; dry when described; observed in cut
    Bw2—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; ashy sandy loam; 30 percent sand; 9 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 10.0 very fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter gneiss fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 003; dry when described; observed in cut
    2Bw—51 to 84 centimeters (20.1 to 33.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 11 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; nonsmeary; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 very fine irregular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter gneiss fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 004; dry when described; observed in cut
    2Cr1—84 to 112 centimeters (33.1 to 44.1 inches); variegated light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; very cobbly sandy loam; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonsmeary; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks and 0.5 medium roots in cracks and 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 4.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in cut
    2Cr2—112 to 140 centimeters (44.1 to 55.1 inches); variegated extremely cobbly coarse sand, bedrock; moderate excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine roots in cracks and 4.0 fine roots in cracks; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in cut
    2R—140 to 165 centimeters (55.1 to 65.0 inches); bedrock; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments.; observed in cut