IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Colter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000WA059005
  • User Pedon ID: S2000WA059005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000WA059005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0557
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12061
  • 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: 46.3542557
  • Std. Longitude: -122.0881348
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet south and 1600 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: About one mile west of Ryan Lake.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA059—Skamania
  • MLRA: 3—Olympic and Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA760—Gifford Pinchot National Forest Area, Washington
  • PEDON

  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colter
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy-pumiceous Typic Vitricryands
  • PSC - 0 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/20/2000
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/20/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Abies procera
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ABPR

    GASH

    ROGY

    SASI2

    VAPA

    Abies procera

    Gaultheria shallon

    Rosa gymnocarpa

    Salix sitchensis

    Vaccinium parvifolium

    noble fir

    salal

    dwarf rose

    Sitka willow

    red huckleberry

    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

    17

    1041

    192

    C—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); 60 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), 60 percent light gray (N 7/0) and 40 percent gray (10YR 6/1), dry; fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 21.0 very fine high-continuity interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter pumice fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P03646
    2Ab—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); 40 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 40 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), 40 percent gray (10YR 5/1) and 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; fine sandy loam; moderate thick platy structure; hard when dry, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 21.0 very fine high-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    3Bw—23 to 96 centimeters (9.1 to 37.8 inches); 50 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and 30 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), 50 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and 30 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) and 20 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), dry; extremely gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 95 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. many medium highly continuous voids between rock fragments.
    4Ab—96 to 105 centimeters (37.8 to 41.3 inches); 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 20 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 30 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and 20 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 21.0 very fine high-continuity interstitial and fine high-continuity tubular pores; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter pumice fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P03647
    5Bwb1—105 to 136 centimeters (41.3 to 53.5 inches); 50 percent gray (10YR 5/1) and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), 50 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) and 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry; gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 fine high-continuity interstitial and 3.0 fine high-continuity tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P03648
    5Bwb2—136 to 168 centimeters (53.5 to 66.1 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 30 percent gray (10YR 5/1) and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), 60 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4) and 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) and 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), dry; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 fine high-continuity interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. gravelly sandy loam with lenses of gravelly loamy sand.
    6Bwb3—168 to 200 centimeters (66.1 to 78.7 inches); 40 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), 40 percent yellow (10YR 8/6) and 40 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 20 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 90 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. many medium highly continuous voids between rock fragments.