IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elklake
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998WA027005
  • User Pedon ID: S1998WA027005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1998WA027005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0538
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10808
  • 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: 47.3655548
  • Std. Longitude: -123.8349991
  • Datum: WGS84
  • PLSS Details: about 950 feet east and 2,585 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: about 3 miles northwest of the Humptulips Guard Station
  • 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)
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47123-C7—Burnt Hill, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, ferrihydritic, isofrigid Pachic Fulvudands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elklake
  • PSC - 0 to 52 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elklake
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal, ferrihydritic, isofrigid Typic Fu
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/3/1998
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountainside
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: h slight weathered basalt 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: 791-91
  • 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

    ACCI

    BLSP

    COPTI

    GASH

    OXOR

    POMU

    THPL

    TSHE

    VAPA

    Abies amabilis

    Acer circinatum

    Blechnum spicant

    Coptis

    Gaultheria shallon

    Oxalis oregana

    Polystichum munitum

    Thuja plicata

    Tsuga heterophylla

    Vaccinium parvifolium

    Pacific silver fir

    vine maple

    deer fern

    goldthread

    salal

    redwood-sorrel

    western swordfern

    western redcedar

    western hemlock

    red huckleberry

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

    umbric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    0—25

    0—52

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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

    73

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    290

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    319

    3810

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P03123
    A—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; extremely gravelly silt loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; hard when dry, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 70 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P03124
    Bw1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; extremely gravelly silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, 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 interstitial and tubular pores; 65 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P03125
    Bw2—28 to 45 centimeters (11.0 to 17.7 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) and 30 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry; very gravelly silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky 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; 5 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 50 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P03126
    Bh—45 to 55 centimeters (17.7 to 21.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry; very gravelly silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky 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; 50 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P03127
    R—55 to 80 centimeters (21.7 to 31.5 inches); fragments. R horizon is marine basalt.