IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marble
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008WA063004
  • User Pedon ID: S2008WA063004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0249
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24029
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 47.6449814
  • Std. Longitude: -117.4446793
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 42E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 820 ft N and 2310 ft E of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Within the City of Spokane, near Hangman Cr.
  • 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: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Entic Ultic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marble
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Marble
  • Classificaton Date - 8/20/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: minor amounts of volcanic ash mixed with loess over sandy glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN140 - ponderosa pine/Idaho fescue—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/20/2008 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—30

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    Setting and Climate
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    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    Apu—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; ashy loam; 50 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak medium platy parts to moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-15-25 millimeter unspecified fragments; 1 percent by volume irregular angular 2-11-19 millimeter glass; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in trench
    AB—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; ashy fine sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 8 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine tubular and 5.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 medium tubular and 1.0 coarse tubular pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in trench
    E and Bt1—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; loamy fine sand; 87 percent sand; 9 percent silt; 4 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 6.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular and 6.0 coarse tubular pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; 2 percent lamellae (volume percent); noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in trench
    E and Bt2—56 to 117 centimeters (22.0 to 46.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; loamy fine sand; 85 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; 1 percent lamina (volume percent); noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in trench
    2Bq—117 to 165 centimeters (46.1 to 65.0 inches); variegated fine gravelly coarse sand; 98 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 6.0 fine interstitial pores; 3 percent distinct silica coats on bottom of rock fragments; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent.; slightly moist when described; observed in trench