IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aeric Endoaquepts
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015WA009502
  • User Pedon ID: 2015WA009502
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2015WA009502
  • User Site Association ID: Olympic Lab Pedons 2015Olympic pedons 2015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0234
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87725
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024
  • 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: 47.9770920
  • Std. Longitude: -123.5877410
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 29N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 625 meters north and 260 meters east of SW corner of section
  • Location Description: Elwha drainage, Whiskey Bend Road
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA009—Clallam
  • MLRA: 3—Olympic and Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA730—Olympic National Park, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47123-H5—Hurricane Hill, Washington
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Toby Rodgers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Aeric Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: dense glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: T-1100 glacial lake sediment terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/30/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Toby Rodgers
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PSME

    TSHE

    ABGR

    MANE2

    ACTR

    HODI

    GATR3

    ROGY

    RUUR

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Tsuga heterophylla

    Abies grandis

    Mahonia nervosa

    Achlys triphylla

    Holodiscus discolor

    Galium triflorum

    Rosa gymnocarpa

    Rubus ursinus

    Douglas-fir

    western hemlock

    grand fir

    Cascade barberry

    sweet after death

    oceanspray

    fragrant bedstraw

    dwarf rose

    California blackberry

    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    weakly coherent

    70 - 200

    - 130 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    aquic conditions

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    reduced matrix

    0—18

    5—152

    5—152

    27—152

    56—70

    70—152

    —18—

    —147—

    —147—

    —147—

    —43—

    —52—

    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    4/30/2015

    4/30/2015

    15

    50

    8.4

    8.1

    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

    5

    325

    250

    1450

    9

    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; common very fine interstitial and common fine interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oe—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; common very fine roots throughout and few medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; common very fine interstitial and common fine interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—5 to 27 centimeters (2.0 to 10.6 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 10 percent sand; 20 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine roots throughout and few medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; many very fine irregular and many fine irregular pores; 2 percent medium irregular strongly coherent cemented light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry, and brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; 5 percent by volume 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N00768; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg1—27 to 56 centimeters (10.6 to 22.0 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) broken face, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 10 percent sand; 25 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; common very fine irregular and few very fine tubular and common fine irregular and few fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium irregular light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry, iron depletions on surfaces along pores and 10 percent medium irregular dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 16N00769; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg2—56 to 70 centimeters (22.0 to 27.6 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) broken face, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 10 percent sand; 25 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky parts to strong fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; common very fine irregular and few very fine tubular and common fine irregular pores; 5 percent medium irregular gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, and light gray (2.5Y 7/1), dry, iron depletions on surfaces along pores and 40 percent medium irregular dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 16N00770; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cd—70 to 152 centimeters (27.6 to 59.8 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 10 percent sand; 25 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky parts to strong fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common very fine irregular and few very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium irregular grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, and gray (2.5Y 6/1), dry, reduced matrix on surfaces along pores and 20 percent medium irregular dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry, iron-manganese masses in matrix; ; fragments. Lab sample # 16N00771; moist when described; observed in pit, small