IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Warden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05-KDL-01
  • User Pedon ID: S2005WA005001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 05-KDL-01
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0677
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17058
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 46.2404442
  • Std. Longitude: -119.4731140
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 27E
  • Section: 29
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA005—Benton
  • MLRA: 7—Columbia Basin
  • Regional Office: 1—Portland, OR
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA605—Benton County Area, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46119-B4—Webber Canyon, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kelley Paup-Lefferts, Jen Bell, Duane Lammers and Alan Busacca
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Xeric Haplocambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Warden
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Xeric Haplocambids
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over stratified sediments
  • Landscape: fan piedmont
  • Landform: lake terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/28/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • 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

    ARTR2

    BRTE

    POSE

    PSSP6

    Artemisia tridentata

    Bromus tectorum

    Poa secunda

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    big sagebrush

    cheatgrass

    Sandberg bluegrass

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—8

    8—25

    25—68

    117—136

    —8—

    —17—

    —43—

    —19—
    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

    8

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    200.9

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    120

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 7.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 05N03881; observed in cut
    Bw—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 05N03882; observed in cut
    Bk—25 to 68 centimeters (9.8 to 26.8 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; carbonate coats on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 05N03883; observed in cut
    C1—68 to 117 centimeters (26.8 to 46.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume strongly coherent cemented 2-45-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 05N03884; observed in cut
    2Bkb—117 to 136 centimeters (46.1 to 53.5 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist; very fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 1 percent fine carbonate threads in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 05N03885; observed in cut
    2C2—136 to 187 centimeters (53.5 to 73.6 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; - 51 - percent of the total horizon. Lab sample # 05N03886; observed in cut
    2C3—187 to 220 centimeters (73.6 to 86.6 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 05N03887; observed in cut
    350 to 355 centimeters (137.8 to 139.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 05N03888; observed in cut