IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Murhut
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993WA027001
  • User Pedon ID: S1993WA027001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0068
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66258
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 47.4147224
  • Std. Longitude: -123.5533371
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: on the slope above the Wynochee Reservoir
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA027—Grays Harbor
  • MLRA: 1—Northern Pacific Coast Range, Foothills, and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA632—Olympic National Forest Area, Washington (Parts of Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, and Mason Counties)

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Coleman, J. Sasich
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, ferrihydritic, frigid Pachic Fulvudands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Murhut
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Murhut
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal Alic Fulvudand
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/20/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: h slight weathered mixed-igneous and metamorphic with 45 to <100
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/20/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3-122
  • Plant Association Name: TSHE/VAAL
  • 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

    73

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    646

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    0

    4470

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00573
    A1—3 to 16 centimeters (1.2 to 6.3 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 21.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 45 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00574. charcoal (5%) and wood fragments (45%) occupy 50% of volume
    A2—16 to 39 centimeters (6.3 to 15.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 21.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 50 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00575
    Bw1—39 to 67 centimeters (15.4 to 26.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; extremely cobbly sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular, and weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 21.0 very fine to medium roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 35 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 40 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00576
    Bw2—67 to 84 centimeters (26.4 to 33.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), dry; extremely gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 0.5 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 30 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 40 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00577
    R—84 to 103 centimeters (33.1 to 40.6 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 94P00578