IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Merkel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994WA047001
  • User Pedon ID: 1994WA047001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1994WA047001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0359
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66537
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 48.6244431
  • Std. Longitude: -119.7869415
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA047—Okanogan
  • MLRA: 6—Cascade Mountains, Eastern Slope
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA749—Okanogan National Forest Area, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BJD
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Vitrandic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Merkel
  • PSC - 29 to 52 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/17/2015
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Merkel
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Vitrandic Xerochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/20/1993
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/20/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 681-175
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree 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

    ARUV

    CACO11

    CARU

    FRAGA

    LAOC

    PIPO

    PSMEG

    PSSPI

    VERBA

    Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

    Carex concinnoides

    Calamagrostis rubescens

    Fragaria

    Larix occidentalis

    Pinus ponderosa

    Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca

    Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. inermis

    Verbascum

    kinnikinnick

    northwestern sedge

    pinegrass

    strawberry

    western larch

    ponderosa pine

    Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir

    beardless wheatgrass

    mullein

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—18

    10—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

    32

    61

    45.7

    1189

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    250

    559

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    5.6

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    Oe—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    A—4 to 14 centimeters (1.6 to 5.5 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly ashy sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 15 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02211
    Bw1—14 to 25 centimeters (5.5 to 9.8 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly ashy sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 15 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02212
    Bw2—25 to 52 centimeters (9.8 to 20.5 inches);, pale brown (10YR 6/3) and brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly ashy sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 3 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.9, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.
    2Cd—52 to 101 centimeters (20.5 to 39.8 inches);, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine to medium roots; 7 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. This horizon has few distinct dark brown (10YR 4/3) moist stains.
    2C—101 to 156 centimeters (39.8 to 61.4 inches);, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; very gravelly loamy sand; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments.