IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Athena
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005WA063001
  • User Pedon ID: S2005WA063001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0553
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17931
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 47.3390889
  • Std. Longitude: -117.6998556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA063—Spokane
  • MLRA: 9—Palouse and Nez Perce Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA063—Spokane County, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47117-C6—Amber, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jennifer Hendricks
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Athena
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hanning
  • Classificaton Date - 4/26/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: loess hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/26/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—28

    28—124

    —28—

    —96—
    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

    0

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    738

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine irregular and 8.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03218; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face, moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03219; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    ABt—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches);, 90 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face and 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 8.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03220; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—46 to 74 centimeters (18.1 to 29.1 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 0.8 fine dendritic tubular pores; 60 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03221; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—74 to 102 centimeters (29.1 to 40.2 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 0.8 fine dendritic tubular pores; 30 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03222; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—102 to 124 centimeters (40.2 to 48.8 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 25 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03223; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 0.8 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 15 percent fine distinct irregular carbonate masses lining pores; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 05N03224; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small