PEDON DESCRIPTION

Print Date: 11/23/2009Country:
Description Date: 08/10/2004State: Washington
Describer: Ron MyhrumCounty: Kittitas
Site ID: 04-RPM-02MLRA:
Site Note: Soil Survey Area: WA637 -- Kittitas County Area, Washington
Pedon ID: 04WA037001Map Unit:
Pedon Note: Quad Name:
Lab Source ID: SSLLocation Description: TROUGH SNOTEL SITE, KITTITAS COUNTY WA. 30 FEET WEST OF SNOTEL SHED
Lab Pedon #: 05N0038Legal Description: 200 feet west and 500 feet north of the SE corner of Section 11, Township 20N, Range 20E
Soil Name as Described/Sampled: NaxingLatitude: 47 degrees 14 minutes 0.00 seconds north
Soil Name as Correlated: Longitude: 120 degrees 17 minutes 40.00 seconds west
Classification: Ashy-skeletal, mixed Humic Xeric VitricryandsDatum: NAD83
Pedon Type: outside range of seriesUTM Zone: 10
Pedon Purpose: research siteUTM Easting:
Taxon Kind: taxadjunctUTM Northing:
Associated Soils:
Physiographic Division: Primary Earth Cover:
Physiographic Province: Secondary Earth Cover:
Physiographic Section: Existing Vegetation: Douglas-fir, Engelmann spruce, lodgepole pine, pinegrass, subalpine fir, western larch, whitebark pine
State Physiographic Area: Parent Material: volcanic ash and colluvium and residuum from basalt
Local Physiographic Area: Trough SpringsBedrock Kind: basalt
Geomorphic Setting: on mountaintop of mountainBedrock Depth: 152 centimeters
Upslope Shape: Bedrock Hardness: indurated
Cross Slope Shape: Bedrock Fracture Interval:
Particle Size Control Section: Surface Fragments:
Description origin: NASISDescription database: NSSL
Diagnostic Features: ? to ? cm.

Top Depth (cm)Bottom Depth (cm)Restriction Kind Restriction Hardness
35152strongly contrasting textural stratificationnoncemented



Cont. Site ID: 04-RPM-02Pedon ID: 04WA037001

Slope (%)Elevation (meters)Aspect (deg)MAAT (C)MSAT (C)MWAT (C)MAP (mm)Frost-Free DaysDrainage ClassSlope Length (meters)Upslope Length (meters)
6.01,677.0360




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O--0 to 5 centimeters; very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face moderately decomposed plant material.

A--5 to 20 centimeters; dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face ashy loam, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, soft, nonsticky, nonplastic; few fine roots between peds and many very fine roots throughout; many very fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 10 percent 2- to 76-millimeter basalt fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00139

Bw--20 to 35 centimeters; dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face cobbly ashy loam, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dry; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, soft, nonsticky, nonplastic; few fine roots throughout and few coarse roots in cracks and few very fine roots throughout; many very fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent 76- to 250- millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent 2- to 76-millimeter basalt fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00140

C--35 to 152 centimeters; cobbles; few very fine roots around fragments; 25 percent 250- to 600- millimeter basalt fragments and 65 percent 76- to 250-millimeter basalt fragments.