IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Merriman
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998WA009001
  • User Pedon ID: S1998WA009001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1998WA009001
  • User Site Association ID: Olympic NF Lab Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0532
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10802
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 47.9769707
  • Std. Longitude: -123.9836121
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 29N
  • Range: 10W
  • Section: 28
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA009—Clallam
  • MLRA: 3—Olympic and Cascade Mountains
  • 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-H8—Slide Peak, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic Andic Dystrocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Merriman
  • PSC - 0 to 52 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Merriman
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal Ferrihydritic Alic Haplocryod
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/3/1998
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: h slight weathered sandstone, noncalcareous with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 389-228
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABAM

    BLSP

    JAAL

    MADI

    OXOR

    TSHE

    Abies amabilis

    Blechnum spicant

    Jamesianthus alabamensis

    Maianthemum dilatatum

    Oxalis oregana

    Tsuga heterophylla

    Pacific silver fir

    deer fern

    Alabama warbonnet

    false lily of the valley

    redwood-sorrel

    western hemlock

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    cambic horizon

    0—0

    0—52

    14—35

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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

    72

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    930

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    12

    2794

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P03083
    A—3 to 17 centimeters (1.2 to 6.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; very gravelly silt loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 21.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 35 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P03084
    Bw—17 to 38 centimeters (6.7 to 15.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, dry; very gravelly silt loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 30 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P03085
    Bh—38 to 55 centimeters (15.0 to 21.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, dry; very gravelly silt loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; faint organic stains on faces of peds and in pores; 40 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P03086. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 201451; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 201451
    R—55 to 100 centimeters (21.7 to 39.4 inches); prominent organic stains on rock fragments; fragments. R horizon is sedimentary bedrock; sandstone.; continuous - phpvsfiid 201452; continuous - phpvsfiid 201452