IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moscow
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995WA065002
  • User Pedon ID: S1995WA065002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1995WA065002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 96P0074
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68155
  • 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: 48.1394463
  • Std. Longitude: -117.5338898
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31N
  • Range: 42E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet south, 2400 feet east of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Stevens County, Washington.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA065—Stevens
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA065—Stevens County, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steven B. Campbell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Vitrandic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Moscow
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2015
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moscow
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Andic Xerochrepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/1995
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other 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

    ARUV

    LAOC

    PIMO3

    SPBE2

    TSHE

    Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

    Larix occidentalis

    Pinus monticola

    Spiraea betulifolia

    Tsuga heterophylla

    kinnikinnick

    western larch

    western white pine

    white spirea

    western hemlock

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    66 -

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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

    25

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    799

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    350

    625

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. needles, leaves, twigs
    Oe—3 to 4 centimeters (1.2 to 1.6 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. partially decomposed needles and leaves
    A—4 to 9 centimeters (1.6 to 3.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; ashy silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and medium and coarse roots and fine roots; 21.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P00772
    Bw1—9 to 27 centimeters (3.5 to 10.6 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; ashy silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; medium and coarse roots and 21.0 fine roots and fine roots; 3.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P00773
    2Bw2—27 to 45 centimeters (10.6 to 17.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-6-75 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P00774. 10 percent fine pebbles, mostly 2 to 10 mm in diameter
    2BC—45 to 70 centimeters (17.7 to 27.6 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-6-75 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P00775. 20 percent fine pebbles, mostly 2 to 10 mm in diameter
    2Cr—70 to 106 centimeters (27.6 to 41.7 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 96P00776. highly weathered granitic bedrock that breaks to very gravelly loamy coarse sand.