IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kelso
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984WA015012
  • User Pedon ID: 84WA015012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1984WA015012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0918
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55706
  • Print Date: 11/25/2024

    • 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: 46.2697220
  • Std. Longitude: -122.8888855
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA015—Cowlitz
  • MLRA: 2—Willamette and Puget Sound Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. F. Pringle, D. Stockman, and L. Klameth
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Vitrandic Haplumbrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kelso
  • PSC - 62 to 112 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kelso
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Mollic Haploxeralf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 10
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    DAGL

    FERU2

    LOPE

    Dactylis glomerata

    Festuca rubra

    Lolium perenne

    orchardgrass

    red fescue

    perennial ryegrass

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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

    1

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    61

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    270

    140

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    11

    17

    5

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    1Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P05197. common fine roots
    1A2—28 to 45 centimeters (11.0 to 17.7 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P05198. common fine roots throughout
    1Bw1—45 to 62 centimeters (17.7 to 24.4 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 1 percent fine faint mottles; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 5.5 fine continuous tubular pores; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P05199. Faint mottling along pores.; few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots throughout; few fine faint mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 217859; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 217859
    1Bw2—62 to 85 centimeters (24.4 to 33.5 inches);, 20 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior and 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, moist; silt loam; 30 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) coarse prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 0.5 medium continuous tubular and 5.5 fine continuous tubular pores; 15 percent distinct , moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P05200. few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; many coarse prominent 10YR63 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 217860; patchy - phpvsfiid 217860
    1B&E—85 to 111 centimeters (33.5 to 43.7 inches);, 80 percent weak red (2.5YR 5/2) interior and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent weak red (2.5YR 5/2) coarse prominent mottles; moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine continuous tubular pores; 15 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P05201. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; many coarse prominent 2.5YR52 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 217861; patchy - phpvsfiid 217861
    1Bw3—111 to 155 centimeters (43.7 to 61.0 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 1 percent pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium continuous tubular and 0.5 fine continuous tubular pores; 2 percent distinct very dark gray (5Y 3/1), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P05202. Mottles along pores and old root channels.; very few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features on faces of peds; few medium prominent 5YR62 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 217862; patchy - phpvsfiid 217862
    1Bw4—155 to 196 centimeters (61.0 to 77.2 inches);, 90 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior and 10 percent pale olive (5Y 6/3) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; silt loam; 1 percent 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) fine faint and 11 percent pale olive (5Y 6/3) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium continuous tubular and 5.5 fine continuous tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 84P05203. Mottles surround pores and old root channels (5Y 6/3), (5YR 4/8) mottles are around the (5Y 6/3) mottled material.; common medium distinct 5Y63 mottles; few fine faint 5YR48 mottles