IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Palouse
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977WA075001
  • User Pedon ID: 80WA075001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0033
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48333
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 46.6718310
  • Std. Longitude: -117.1377451
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 45E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 400 meters south and 300 meters east of the northwest corner of section 27, township 14N, and range 45E.
  • Location Description: About 4 miles south of Pullman, Washington at 280 feet north of country road and 970 feet of west line of section 27.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA075—Whitman
  • MLRA: 9—Palouse and Nez Perce Prairies

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Pachic Ultic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Palouse (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Pachic Ultic Haploxerolls
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/1980
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    12

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    772

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    520

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    1Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00218. many fine roots
    1A1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine roots; 5.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Not sampled.; many fine roots
    1A3—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Surfaces of peds are very dark brown or black when moist. 20 percent of coarse pores and channels partially filled with dark colored surface material. Not sampled.; many fine roots
    1B21—61 to 102 centimeters (24.0 to 40.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P00219. Surfaces of peds are dark brown when moist. 5 to 10 perccent of area occupied by worm holes partially filled with dark A horizon material.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; many fine roots
    1B22—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate very fine blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.3 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Not sampled. Large worm holes about 13 cm apart.; few fine roots