Back to photostream

Deno soil and landscape

Soil profile: A typical profile of Deno ashy silt loam in an area of Rockly-Deno complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes. (Soil Survey of Spokane County, Washington; by Scott H. Bare, Natural Resources Conservation Service)

 

Landscape: Typical area of Rockly-Deno complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes. The Rockly soil is in foreground under rangeland ecological site R009XY301WA. Stiff sagebrush (Artemisia rigida) is the dominant shrub on the Rockly soil. The Deno soil is on mounds and supports rangeland ecological site R009XY102WA.

 

Landscape--channeled scablands

Landform--mounds on basalt plateaus

Slope--0 to 15 percent

Parent material--loess mixed with volcanic ash in upper part over basalt; minor amount of glaciofluvial deposits in lower part of some pedons

Mean annual precipitation--about 430 mm

Mean annual air temperature--about 9 degrees C

Depth class--deep

Drainage--well drained

Soil moisture regime--xeric

Soil temperature regime--mesic

Soil moisture subclass--typic

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Vitrandic Haploxerolls

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Use--dominantly homesite development, crop production, and livestock grazing; some wildlife habitat and watershed

Common crops--small grain, hay, pasture

Potential natural vegetation--basin wildrye, common snowberry, Idaho fescue, bluebunch wheatgrass, Sandberg bluegrass, Wyeth eriogonum, common yarrow, lupine, rose, threadleaf sedge

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Eastern Washington; MLRA 9; small extent. The Ritter series appears to be very similar to this series. It should be investigated further to determine vitrandic features.

 

For additional information about the survey area, visit:

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

 

For a detailed description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/D/DENO.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

 

331 views
1 fave
0 comments
Uploaded on March 19, 2011
Taken in January 2000