IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chelan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985WA017001
  • User Pedon ID: 85WA017001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1985WA017001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0209
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58014
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 47.8347206
  • Std. Longitude: -119.8416672
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 23E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet NW of Center
  • Location Description: 25 feet into field from roadcut; loamy 9-12 ppt; range site.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA017—Douglas
  • MLRA: 8—Columbia Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: V. E. Beieler and S. Campbell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy, glassy, mesic Vitritorrandic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chelan
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chelan
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial, mesic Andic Xerochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: dead ice moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 10
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGSP

    ARTR2

    BASA3

    Agropyron spicatum

    Artemisia tridentata

    Balsamorhiza sagittata

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    big sagebrush

    arrowleaf balsamroot

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—25

    25—48

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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

    12

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    364

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    315

    25

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    10

    25

    2

    11

    22

    1

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    459074

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    1Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, dry; very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P01243; dry when described;. many very fine roots throughout; many fine roots throughout
    1A—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01244; dry when described;. common very fine roots throughout; common fine roots throughout
    1Bw—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01245; dry when described;. common very fine roots throughout; common fine roots throughout
    1C1—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dry; very fine sandy loam; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P01246; dry when described;. common very fine roots throughout
    1C2—74 to 107 centimeters (29.1 to 42.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dry; very fine sandy loam; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01247; dry when described;. few very fine roots throughout
    2C3—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, light gray (10YR 7/1) crushed, dry; very cobbly sandy loam; hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 86P01248; dry when described;. effervescence is discontinuous