IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hardesty
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005WA063004
  • User Pedon ID: S2005WA063004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005WA063004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0191
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18211
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 47.3751106
  • Std. Longitude: -117.6861115
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 41E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: about 685 feet south and 1840 feet east of the northwest corner
  • 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: Kyle Stephens
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy, glassy, mesic Oxyaquic Vitrandic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hardesty
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hardesty
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over volcanic ash
  • Landscape: scabland
  • Landform: shallow fault zone fault zone
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: occasional ponding for brief periods
  • Geology: Priest Rapids Basalt Flows formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: PIPO/SYAL
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIPO

    SYAL

    AMELA

    FEID

    PSSP6

    ROSA5

    Pinus ponderosa

    Symphoricarpos albus

    Amelanchier

    Festuca idahoensis

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    Rosa

    ponderosa pine

    common snowberry

    serviceberry

    Idaho fescue

    bluebunch wheatgrass

    rose

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

    ochric epipedon

    volcanic glass

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    8—23

    8—152

    23—56

    86—152

    —15—

    —144—

    —33—

    —66—
    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

    1

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    711

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small. undecomposed ponderosa pine needles
    Oe—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small. partially decomposed ponderosa pine needles
    A—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; ashy silt loam; 15 percent clay; moderate thick platy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 5 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-35-75 millimeter basalt fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—23 to 56 centimeters (9.1 to 22.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face, moist; ashy silt loam; 17 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 very coarse roots and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 10.0 very fine irregular pores; 4 percent by volume 2-35-75 millimeter basalt fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bw2—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; ashy very fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very coarse roots and 3.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 7.0 very fine irregular pores; 4 percent by volume 2-35-75 millimeter basalt fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2C—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); white (10YR 8/1) broken face, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, moist; ashy very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very coarse roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 7.0 very fine irregular pores; 5 percent medium dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses infused into matrix along faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-35-75 millimeter basalt fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in pit, small