IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hysing
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999WA063003
  • User Pedon ID: S1999WA063003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999WA063003
  • User Site Association ID: SM-99-31
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0796
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12294
  • 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: 47.8452797
  • Std. Longitude: -117.0536118
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 44E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: About 1580 feet west and 290 feet north of the southwest corner section
  • Location Description: about 4.5 miles southeast of Mt. Spokane, about .2 mile south of Hysing Spring, on IEP logging road
  • Map Unit: 5142—Jacot-Hysing complex, 30 to 55 percent slopes
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA063—Spokane
  • MLRA: 43—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA063—Spokane County, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47117-G1—Newman Lake, Washington
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sue Malone
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, amorphic over mixed, frigid Typic Udivitrands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hysing
  • PSC - 7 to 107 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/10/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hysing
  • Classificaton Date - 8/26/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty volcanic ash over sandy and gravelly residuum weathered from quartz-monzonite
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, lower third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent moderate weathered quartz-monzonite at 129cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Newman Lake Gneiss formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/26/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: TSHE/CLUN Habitat type
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 27
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABGR

    LAOC

    PICO

    PSME

    THPL

    TSHE

    ACGL

    ALINT

    HODI

    PHMA5

    POTR5

    RUPA

    SALIX

    ANPI

    CLUN2

    COOC

    GATR3

    GOOB2

    LIBOL2

    OSBE

    PYROL

    TITRU

    VIOR

    Abies grandis

    Larix occidentalis

    Pinus contorta

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Thuja plicata

    Tsuga heterophylla

    Acer glabrum

    Alnus incana ssp. tenuifolia

    Holodiscus discolor

    Physocarpus malvaceus

    Populus tremuloides

    Rubus parviflorus

    Salix

    Anemone piperi

    Clintonia uniflora

    Coptis occidentalis

    Galium triflorum

    Goodyera oblongifolia

    Linnaea borealis ssp. longiflora

    Osmorhiza berteroi

    Pyrola

    Tiarella trifoliata var. unifoliata

    Viola orbiculata

    grand fir

    western larch

    lodgepole pine

    Douglas-fir

    western redcedar

    western hemlock

    Rocky Mountain maple

    thinleaf alder

    oceanspray

    mallow ninebark

    quaking aspen

    thimbleberry

    willow

    Piper's anemone

    bride's bonnet

    Idaho goldthread

    fragrant bedstraw

    western rattlesnake plantain

    longtube twinflower

    sweetcicely

    wintergreen

    oneleaf foamflower

    darkwoods violet

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    weakly coherent

    very strongly coherent

    129 - 164

    164 -

    - 35 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—17

    7—64

    17—71

    129—

    —17—

    —71—

    —53—

    —-

    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

    38

    1082

    352

    889

    75

    7

    7

    9

    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.; observed in cut
    Oe—3 to 7 centimeters (1.2 to 2.8 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.; observed in cut
    A—7 to 17 centimeters (2.8 to 6.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/3) broken face, dry; ashy silt loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 8.0 medium roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout; 20.0 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial and 15.0 fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; observed in cut
    Bw1—17 to 45 centimeters (6.7 to 17.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, dry; ashy silt loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 20.0 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial and 15.0 fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; observed in cut
    Bw2—45 to 65 centimeters (17.7 to 25.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, dry; ashy silt loam; 8 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 20.0 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial and 15.0 fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary.; observed in cut
    2Bt—65 to 71 centimeters (25.6 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, dry; gravelly sandy loam; 14 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular and 0.8 medium low-continuity irregular pores; 2 percent faint clay bridges on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-5-20 millimeter quartz-monzonite fragments; 2 percent lamina (volume percent); 2 percent lamina (lateral area percent); noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary.; observed in cut. This horizon varies from 0 to 5 cm thick and is discontinuous across this 1 meter wide pedon.; 1 thin,(1-2mm thick) wavy discontinuous lamella; patchy - phpvsfiid 20575; patchy - phpvsfiid 20575
    2BC—71 to 81 centimeters (28.0 to 31.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) crushed, dry; very gravelly loamy sand; 6 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 20.0 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial and 15.0 fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 45 percent by volume nonflat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-5-20 millimeter quartz-monzonite fragments; 1 percent lamina (volume percent); 1 percent lamina (lateral area percent); noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary.; observed in cut. 1 thin,(1-2mm thick) wavy discontinuous lamella
    2C—81 to 129 centimeters (31.9 to 50.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) crushed, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) broken face, dry; very gravelly sand; 3 percent clay; structureless very coarse massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 20.0 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial and 15.0 fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 55 percent by volume nonflat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter quartz-monzonite fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; observed in cut
    2Cr—129 to 164 centimeters (50.8 to 64.6 inches); bedrock; moderate excavation difficulty; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in cut. Highly weathered quartz-monzonite that can be dug with a spade. No roots are evident in this horizon
    2R—164 centimeters (64.6 inches); bedrock; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments.; observed in cut. Depth to hard bedrock observed in road cut is more than 164 cm but can be observed above 200 cm along 30 percent of visible road cut