IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hardesty
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008WA063002
  • User Pedon ID: S2008WA063002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008WA063002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0410
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19773
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 47.6431236
  • Std. Longitude: -117.3950958
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 43E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 1240 FT WEST AND 155 FT NORTH OF THE SOUTHEAST CORNER
  • Location Description: Center of backyard of 1003 E 14th Ave, Spokane WA, 99202
  • 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-F4—Spokane NW, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kyle Stephens
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy, glassy, mesic Vitrandic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • 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 - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Uhlig
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: local human transported material over minor amounts of volcanic ash mixed with loess over minor amounts of outwash mixed with laminated alluvium
  • Landscape: Columbia Basalt plateau
  • Landform: relict flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • 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: 4/16/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: PIPO/SYAL or PHMA
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    POA

    Poa

    bluegrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    volcanic glass

    0—36

    56—106

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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

    5

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    625

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    360

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    ^A—0 to 36 centimeters (0.0 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; ashy loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter basalt fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. fill material, may be local, but probably transported from outside sources
    ^C—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 35 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 17 percent clay; massive; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine irregular pores; 5 percent medium moderately coherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese concretions along lamina or strata surfaces and 5 percent coarse moderately coherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese concretions along lamina or strata surfaces; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-160-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter basalt fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. this horizon is composed of fill material from when the basement was excavated in 1924. The horizon contains soil bodies in no disernable order that have laminar charaterisitics similar to the Bwb and other horizons below.
    Ab1—56 to 87 centimeters (22.0 to 34.3 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; ashy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate medium granular parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ab2—87 to 106 centimeters (34.3 to 41.7 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; ashy loam; 50 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 12 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine irregular and 1.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bwb—106 to 152 centimeters (41.7 to 59.8 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 13 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-160-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter basalt fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. this horizon is composed of laminated sandy loam sediments .