IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Naxing
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04-RPM-02
  • User Pedon ID: S2004WA037001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 04-RPM-02
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0038
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17147
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 47.2333336
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2944412
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20N
  • Range: 20E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet west and 500 feet north of the SE corner
  • Location Description: TROUGH SNOTEL SITE, KITTITAS COUNTY WA. 30 FEET WEST OF SNOTEL SHED
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA037—Kittitas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA637—Kittitas County Area, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ron Myhrum
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy-skeletal, mixed Humic Xeric Vitricryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Naxing
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy-skeletal, mixed Humic Xeric Vitricryands
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash and colluvium and residuum from basalt
  • Landform: mountain
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated basalt at 152cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/10/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Plant Association Name: PIAL/CARU
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ABLA

    CARU

    LAOC

    PIAL

    PICO

    PIEN

    PSME

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Calamagrostis rubescens

    Larix occidentalis

    Pinus albicaulis

    Pinus contorta

    Picea engelmannii

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    subalpine fir

    pinegrass

    western larch

    whitebark pine

    lodgepole pine

    Engelmann spruce

    Douglas-fir

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

    strongly contrasting textural stratification

    noncoherent

    35 - 152

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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

    6

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    1677

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    360

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    832

    Trough

    SNOTEL
    O—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    A—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; ashy loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots between peds; 10.0 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 2-20-76 millimeter basalt fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00139; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—20 to 35 centimeters (7.9 to 13.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dry; cobbly ashy loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots in cracks; 10.0 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 76-150-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-20-76 millimeter basalt fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00140; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C—35 to 152 centimeters (13.8 to 59.8 inches); cobbles; 0.5 very fine roots around fragments; 25 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter basalt fragments and 65 percent by volume 76-150-250 millimeter basalt fragments.; observed in pit, small