IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Garrison
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008WA063001
  • User Pedon ID: S2008WA063001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0409
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19772
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 47.6663972
  • Std. Longitude: -117.4408306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 42E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 1280 ft S and 935 ft west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Center of backyard at 1908 W Dean Ave, Spokane WA
  • Map Unit: 7110—Urban land-Opportunity, disturbed complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA063—Spokane
  • MLRA: 44A—Northern Rocky Mountain Valleys
  • Regional Office: NW—Northwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-MOS—Moscow, Idaho
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA063—Spokane County, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47117-F4—Spokane NW, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott H Bare
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, mesic Vitrandic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Garrison
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/2014
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Garrison
  • Classificaton Date - 4/11/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: minor amounts of volcanic ash mixed with loess over sandy and gravelly glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landform: outwash terrace on valley
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/11/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: PIPO/SYAL or FEID
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    strongly contrasting textural stratification

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    63 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    volcanic glass

    artifacts

    cambic horizon

    0—31

    0—31

    0—14

    31—63

    —31—

    —31—

    —14—

    —32—
    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

    —

    —

    573

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    430

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    128

    10

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    Au—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; very gravelly ashy silt loam; 12 percent clay; moderate very fine granular, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 medium tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-160-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; 1 percent by volume irregular cohesive persistent penetrable 75-162-249 millimeter innocuous artifacts of plastic; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02566; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    A—14 to 31 centimeters (5.5 to 12.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; very gravelly ashy silt loam; 12 percent clay; moderate medium granular, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 medium tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-160-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02567; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bkq1—31 to 63 centimeters (12.2 to 24.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; extremely gravelly silt loam; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 medium interstitial and 1.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, worm casts and 5 percent white (10YR 8/1) silica concretions on bottom of rock fragments and 5 percent white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-160-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02568; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. 8% 10YR 3/1 bodies from horizon above
    Bkq2—63 to 86 centimeters (24.8 to 33.9 inches); gravel; 65 percent sand; 5 percent clay; 2.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 very coarse interstitial and 2.0 medium interstitial and 3.0 fine tubular and 2.0 coarse interstitial pores; 8 percent white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments and 10 percent white (10YR 8/1), moist, and light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silica concretions on bottom of rock fragments; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-160-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02569; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. 10% 10YR 3/1 bodies from horizon above; variegatted colors
    Bkq3—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); gravel; 1 percent clay; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 2.0 medium interstitial and 3.0 fine interstitial and 1.0 coarse interstitial pores; 10 percent white (10YR 8/1), moist, and light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silica concretions on bottom of rock fragments and 5 percent white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-160-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 80 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 08N02570; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. variegatted colors