IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mashel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976WA067001
  • User Pedon ID: S1976WA067001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1976WA067001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3305
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38420
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 46.7808342
  • Std. Longitude: -122.4013901
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 615 feet south of junction of roads 3170 and 3170D, and 25 feet west of road 3170 in the SW 1/4, SW 1/4
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA067—Thurston
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA067—Thurston County, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. D. Giese
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mashel
  • Classificaton Date - 11/30/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MASHEL
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/9/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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

    ACCI

    ALRU2

    PTERI

    RUBUS

    TSHE

    Acer circinatum

    Alnus rubra

    Pteridium

    Rubus

    Tsuga heterophylla

    vine maple

    red alder

    brackenfern

    blackberry

    western hemlock

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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

    8

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    354

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    90

    1397

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    9.4

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    O1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A25728. roots, leaves, and twigs
    A1—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; 1 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25729
    B1—28 to 49 centimeters (11.0 to 19.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; 1 percent brown (10YR 4/3) fine mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 21.0 fine pores; clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25730. patchy - phpvsfiid 198056; patchy - phpvsfiid 198056
    B2T—49 to 99 centimeters (19.3 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine and medium pores; brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 10 percent black stains; 2 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25731. strongly weathered gravel can be cut with a knife, less than 1 percent is hard gravel; common bleached silt and sand particles on some faces of peds and within some peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 198057; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 198057
    B3T—99 to 148 centimeters (39.0 to 58.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), light gray (10YR 7/2) and very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silty clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25732. 75 percent very strongly weathered glacial till that exhibits rock structure, but after prolonged rubbing is a silty clay; less than 1 percent hard gravel; no roots; many small pockets of dark brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay
    C—148 to 160 centimeters (58.3 to 63.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A25733. strongly weathered glacial till that exhibits rock structure but after prolonged rubbing has a loam texture; less than 1 percent hard gravel