IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): FRICABA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993WA045003
  • User Pedon ID: S1993WA045003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0066
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66256
  • Print Date: 2/19/2025

    • 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: 47.4388885
  • Std. Longitude: -123.2836075
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: southwest 1/4
  • Location Description: Brown Creek, Hood Canal RD.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA045—Mason
  • 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)
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47123-D4—Mount Tebo, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Coleman, J. Sasich
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, ferrihydritic, frigid Typic Hapludands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - FRICABA
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fricaba
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal, frigid Typic Hapludand
  • 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: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • 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: 1-233
  • Plant Association Name: TSHE/GASH-XETE
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    65

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    707

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    260

    3048

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00561
    Oa—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 94P00562
    A—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; weak very fine granular, and weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium and coarse roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 50 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00563
    Bw—28 to 49 centimeters (11.0 to 19.3 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) extremely gravelly sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 50 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00564
    C—49 to 66 centimeters (19.3 to 26.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) extremely cobbly sandy loam; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 0.5 very fine to coarse roots in cracks; 3.0 very fine and fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume subangular 250-425-600 millimeter basalt fragments and 34 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 55 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00565
    R—66 to 108 centimeters (26.0 to 42.5 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 94P00566