IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): TUNNELCREEK
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993WA009004
  • User Pedon ID: S1993WA009004
  • User Site Association ID: Olympic NF Lab Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0073
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66263
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 47.8372231
  • Std. Longitude: -123.1344452
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Gold Creek
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA009—Clallam
  • MLRA: 2—Willamette and Puget Sound Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA632—Olympic National Forest Area, Washington (Parts of Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, and Mason Counties)
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47123-H1—Mount Zion, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - TUNNELCREEK
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tunnelcreek
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Dystric Xerochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/20/1993
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: mixed-metamorphic and sedimentary
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/20/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: TSHE/RHMA-GASH
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    77

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    811

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    236

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 94P00614
    A—3 to 21 centimeters (1.2 to 8.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 94P00615
    Bw1—21 to 36 centimeters (8.3 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 94P00616
    Bw2—36 to 63 centimeters (14.2 to 24.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry; extremely cobbly sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 94P00617
    BC—63 to 83 centimeters (24.8 to 32.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry; extremely cobbly sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky parts to weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 94P00618
    Cr—83 to 96 centimeters (32.7 to 37.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 94P00619
    R—96 to 103 centimeters (37.8 to 40.6 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 94P00620