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Larkin soil series

Soil profile: Larkin soils typically form in loess, but in some areas loess over residuum derived from basalt or loess mixed with a small amount of volcanic ash in upper part.

 

Landscape--Columbia hills

Landform--loess hills, structural benches, plateaus

Slope--0 to 60 percent

Parent material--typically loess, but in some areas loess over residuum derived from basalt or loess mixed with a small amount of volcanic ash in upper part

Mean annual air temperature--about 8 degrees C

Mean annual precipitation--about 585 mm

Depth class--very deep

Drainage class--well drained

Soil moisture regime--xeric

Soil temperature regime--mesic

Soil moisture subclass--typic

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Argixerolls

 

Thickness of mollic epipedon--25 to 50 cm

Base saturation--50 to 75 percent in some part between depths of 25 and 75 cm

Soil moisture control section--dry 45 to 75 days

Mean annual soil temperature--8 to 12 degrees C

Content of clay in particle-size control section (weighted average)--20 to 35 percent

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Use--dominantly crop production; some timber production

Potential natural vegetation--dominantly ponderosa pine, mallow ninebark, common snowberry, elk sedge, and bluebunch wheatgrass

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Northern Idaho and eastern Washington; MLRA 9; moderate extent

 

For additional information about the survey area, visit:

www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/washington/spo...

 

For a detailed soil description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/L/LARKIN.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#larkin

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Taken in January 2003