IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chowchow
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04-EAB-10
  • User Pedon ID: S2004WA027009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 04-EAB-10
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0175
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17656
  • 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: 47.3057785
  • Std. Longitude: -124.0920563
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: about 1240 feet East and 1145 feet North of the Southwest Corner
  • Location Description: about 2 miles North of the Moclips Highway (F-5 road)
  • Map Unit: 6—Chowchow peat, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA027—Grays Harbor
  • MLRA: 4A—Sitka Spruce Belt
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA728—Quinault Indian Reservation, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47124-C1—Macafee Hill, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ed Brincken
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, isotic, dysic, isomesic Terric Haplosaprists
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chowchow
  • PSC - 0 to 122 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/3/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chowchow
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: organic material over glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: proglacial lake
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for very long periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: ponded
  • Surface Water Depth: 5
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - culturally induced barren
  • 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

    CAREX

    JUNCU

    LYCOP2

    Carex

    Juncus

    Lycopodium

    sedge

    rush

    clubmoss

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

    histic epipedon

    0—58

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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

    0.5

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    77

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    2667

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    200

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    Oi—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) rubbed, very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) exterior, dry; peat; moderate permeability; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N00981; wet, satiated when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa—9 to 20 centimeters (3.5 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) rubbed, black (10YR 2/1) exterior, dry; muck; moderate permeability; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00982; wet, satiated when described; observed in pit, small
    2Oe—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) rubbed, black (10YR 2/1) exterior, dry; mucky peat; moderate permeability; 4.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00983; wet, satiated when described; observed in pit, small
    2Oa—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) rubbed, black (10YR 2/1) exterior, dry; muck; moderate permeability; 4.0 medium roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N00984; wet, satiated when described; observed in pit, small
    3Cg1—58 to 91 centimeters (22.8 to 35.8 inches); 70 percent very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) broken face, 70 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; structureless massive; hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 medium roots throughout; 30 percent fine prominent threadlike noncoherent cemented black (2.5Y 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries on surfaces along root channels; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00985; wet, satiated when described; observed in pit, small
    3Cg2—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) broken face, light gray (5Y 7/1) broken face, dry; silt loam; structureless massive; hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 medium roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green. Lab sample # 05N00986; wet, satiated when described; observed in pit, small