IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Samsriver
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998WA031002
  • User Pedon ID: S1998WA031002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1998WA031002
  • User Site Association ID: Olympic NF Lab Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0541
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10811
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 47.5873604
  • Std. Longitude: -123.8611679
  • Datum: WGS84
  • PLSS Details: about 2,165 feet east and 2,535 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: about 5.5 miles north-northwest of the Quinault River Ranger Station
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA031—Jefferson
  • 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-E7—Finley Creek, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, isofrigid Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Samsriver
  • PSC - 25 to 54 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - perudic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Samsriver
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal, mixed, isofrigid Andic Haplohumod
  • 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
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 791-59
  • 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

    CLUN

    MADI

    TSHE

    VAAL

    Abies amabilis

    Blechnum spicant

    Clarkia unguiculata

    Maianthemum dilatatum

    Tsuga heterophylla

    Vaccinium alaskense

    Pacific silver fir

    deer fern

    elegant clarkia

    false lily of the valley

    western hemlock

    Alaska blueberry

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

    andic soil properties

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    0—54

    0—10

    10—54

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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

    36

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    872

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    97

    4623

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    E—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); 90 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 10 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) very gravelly very fine sandy loam; massive; hard when dry, firm, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent by volume rounded 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments and 30 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P03142
    Bs—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) very cobbly 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; 20 percent by volume rounded 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments and 30 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P03143
    Bh—36 to 54 centimeters (14.2 to 21.3 inches); 50 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) and 50 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) extremely 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; 20 percent by volume rounded 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments and 45 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P03144
    Cd—54 to 79 centimeters (21.3 to 31.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) extremely cobbly loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, noncoherent; brittle; 30 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments and 30 percent by volume rounded 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 98P03145