IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aquandic Endoaquepts
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015WA031502
  • User Pedon ID: 2015WA031502
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2015WA031502
  • User Site Association ID: Olympic Lab Pedons 2015Olympic pedons 2015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0242
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87631
  • 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: 47.6482280
  • Std. Longitude: -124.3859780
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 13W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 130m south and 730m west of NE corner of section
  • Location Description: OLYM south coast unit, Highway 101 sout of 4th beach
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA031—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 4A—Sitka Spruce Belt
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA730—Olympic National Park, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47124-F4—Destruction Island, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Toby Rodgers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, acid, isomesic Aquandic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Aquandic Endoaquepts
  • PSC - 28 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2018
  • Classifier - Phil Roberts
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Aquic Hapludands
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial, ferrihydritic, isomesic Aquic Hapludands
  • Taxon Kind - taxon above family
  • PSC - 3 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/16/2015
  • Classifier - Toby Rodgers
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or fine marine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: 100 marine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/16/2015 (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

    PISI

    TSHE

    GASH

    VAPA

    VAOV2

    POMU

    Picea sitchensis

    Tsuga heterophylla

    Gaultheria shallon

    Vaccinium parvifolium

    Vaccinium ovatum

    Polystichum munitum

    Sitka spruce

    western hemlock

    salal

    red huckleberry

    California huckleberry

    western swordfern

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    cambic horizon

    0—18

    3—46

    25—110

    25—110

    74—110

    —18—

    —43—

    —85—

    —85—

    —36—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    6/16/2015

    6/16/2015

    15

    50

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    11.7

    11.3
    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

    15

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    40

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    280

    2920

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    9

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A1—3 to 9 centimeters (1.2 to 3.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face, dry; silt loam; 25 percent sand; 15 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; many very fine roots throughout and few very coarse roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; few very fine tubular and common very fine irregular and few fine tubular and common fine irregular pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N00805; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—9 to 25 centimeters (3.5 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; 20 percent sand; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common very fine roots throughout and common very coarse roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; few very fine tubular and few very fine irregular and few fine tubular and few fine irregular pores; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 16N00806; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bg1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; silt loam; 15 percent sand; 20 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; few very fine tubular and few medium tubular and few fine tubular pores; 5 percent fine distinct noncoherent cemented light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, iron depletions with sharp boundaries throughout and 10 percent fine distinct noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries throughout; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 16N00807; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bg2—46 to 74 centimeters (18.1 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; silt loam; 15 percent sand; 15 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; few very fine irregular pores; 20 percent coarse distinct noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries throughout and 25 percent coarse distinct noncoherent cemented light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, iron depletions with sharp boundaries throughout; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 16N00808; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bg3—74 to 152 centimeters (29.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face, yellow (10YR 7/6) broken face, dry; silt loam; 15 percent sand; 15 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; few very fine irregular pores; 5 percent fine distinct noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries throughout and 5 percent fine distinct noncoherent cemented light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, iron depletions with sharp boundaries throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 16N00809; moist when described; observed in pit, small