IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Esquatzel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: VFSL Surface
  • User Site ID: S2018WA071005
  • User Pedon ID: S2018WA071005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 19N0006
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 46.2685100
  • Std. Longitude: -118.1909800
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 12.10
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 37E
  • Section: 9
  • Location Description: State Hwy 124 & Knotgrass Road 740 feet north on Knotgrass Road 240 feet west to site
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA071—Walla Walla
  • MLRA: 8—Columbia Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46118-C2—Waitsburg, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Harrington
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Torrifluventic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Esquatzel
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/8/2018
  • Classifier - ARH/RJE/TLA
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Other Feature Description - annual crop because irrigated
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - close grown annual crop, or crop-fallow
  • Other Feature Description - annual crop because irrigated
  • Litter Cover % - 70
  • Residue Description - Canola stalks that wiill be mowed
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash mixed with loess and alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/21/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Keith Harrington
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    3

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    365

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    160

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; ashy loam; 48 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; many very fine interstitial and many very fine tubular and common medium interstitial and common medium tubular and many fine tubular and many fine interstitial pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 19N00027; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—10 to 56 centimeters (3.9 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; loam; 45 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; common very fine tubular and common very fine interstitial and common medium tubular and common medium interstitial and common fine interstitial and common fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 19N00028; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—56 to 82 centimeters (22.0 to 32.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) broken face, moist; loam; 45 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots between peds and many medium roots between peds and many fine roots between peds and many coarse roots between peds; common very fine interstitial and common very fine tubular and common medium interstitial and common medium tubular and common fine interstitial and common fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 19N00029; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—82 to 107 centimeters (32.3 to 42.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face, 2.5Y 2/2 (2.5Y 2/2) broken face, moist; loam; 45 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; common very fine interstitial and common very fine tubular and common medium interstitial and common medium tubular and common fine interstitial and common fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 19N00030; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw4—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face, 2.5Y 2/2 (2.5Y 2/2) broken face, moist; loam; 45 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; common very fine interstitial and common very fine tubular and common medium interstitial and common medium tubular and common fine interstitial and common fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 19N00031; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small