IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dearyton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001WA063010
  • User Pedon ID: S2001WA063010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0121
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14671
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 47.5124702
  • Std. Longitude: -117.1432114
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23 N
  • Range: 45 E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: About 2480 feet east and 1980 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: North of Elder Road east of Highway 27, behind red barn in new cutbank
  • Map Unit: 3061—Dearyton ashy silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes
  • 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-E2—Freeman, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sue Malone
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dearyton
  • PSC - 74 to 122 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/10/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dearyton
  • Classificaton Date - 9/5/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash and/or loess over till and/or saprolite derived from gneiss
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Saprolitic Gneiss And Latah formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/5/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Ponderosa pine/Common snowberry H.T.
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 18
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—13

    74—152

    —13—

    —78—
    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

    12

    —

    —

    838

    —

    220

    56

    —

    115

    8

    —

    —

    9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; ashy silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate thin platy structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.8 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine irregular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; observed in cut, beveled
    Bw—13 to 38 centimeters (5.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) crushed, moist; ashy silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 0.8 very fine roots and 0.8 medium roots and 0.8 fine roots; 3.0 very fine irregular and 0.8 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in cut, beveled
    BE—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); 50 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior and 50 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; ashy silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 0.8 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct silt coats on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume moderately coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter gneiss fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; observed in cut, beveled
    E—71 to 74 centimeters (28.0 to 29.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, moist; ashy silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 0.8 very fine roots between peds and 0.8 fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 20 percent faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent spherical iron-manganese concretions; 2 percent by volume moderately coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter gneiss fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in cut, beveled
    2Bt—74 to 94 centimeters (29.1 to 37.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, moist; clay loam; 34 percent clay; strong medium prismatic structure; rigid, rigid, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 0.8 very fine roots between peds; 0.8 very fine irregular and 0.8 fine irregular pores; 20 percent prominent silt coats on all faces of peds and 40 percent prominent organoargillans on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent irregular iron-manganese masses between peds; 5 percent by volume strongly coherent cemented 75-150-250 millimeter gneiss fragments and 5 percent by volume strongly coherent cemented 2-35-75 millimeter gneiss fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; observed in cut, beveled
    2Btss1—94 to 109 centimeters (37.0 to 42.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) crushed, moist; clay; 45 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; rigid, rigid, very sticky, very plastic; very slow permeability; high excavation difficulty; 0.8 very fine roots between peds; 0.8 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on vertical faces of peds and 25 percent prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent irregular iron-manganese masses between peds; 20 percent by volume strongly coherent cemented 75-150-250 millimeter gneiss fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; observed in cut, beveled
    2Btss2—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) crushed, moist; clay; 42 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; rigid, rigid, very sticky, very plastic; very slow permeability; high excavation difficulty; 0.8 very fine tubular pores; 50 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent irregular iron-manganese masses between peds; 5 percent by volume strongly coherent cemented 2-35-75 millimeter gneiss fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog.; observed in cut, beveled