IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Stabler
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: cool
  • User Site ID: S2018WA059024
  • User Pedon ID: S2018WA059024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N2119
  • User Project ID: WREF_016_NEON
  • Project Name: Wind River Experimental Forest - WREF
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 45.8489690
  • Std. Longitude: -121.9968190
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 of NW 1/4
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA059—Skamania
  • MLRA: 3—Olympic and Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA760—Gifford Pinchot National Forest Area, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Max Ross
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial, amorphic, frigid Vitric Hapludands
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Stabler
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial, amorphic, frigid Vitric Hapludands
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 8 to 108 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/2018
  • Classifier - Daniel Ufnar
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash mixed with colluvium derived from basalt over debris flow deposits
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: cinder cone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - WREF_024
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 87
  • Plot Baseline Length - 7
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Max Ross

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Max Ross
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    andic soil properties

    lithologic discontinuity

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    8—

    8—

    86—

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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

    15

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    629

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    230

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    Oi—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N06368; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face medial sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 5 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; few (0.8) medium roots and few (0.8) fine roots and few (0.8) coarse roots; many (8.0) very fine irregular and few (0.8) medium irregular pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N06369; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—18 to 45 centimeters (7.1 to 17.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) broken face and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face medial sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 9 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; few (0.8) very fine roots and few (0.8) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots and few (0.8) coarse roots; many (8.0) very fine tubular and many (8.0) very fine irregular and few (0.8) medium tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-4-5 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N06370; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—45 to 86 centimeters (17.7 to 33.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) broken face and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face medial sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 7 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; few (0.8) very fine roots and few (0.8) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots and few (0.8) coarse roots; many (8.0) very fine irregular and few (0.8) fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-4-5 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N06371; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bw4—86 to 100 centimeters (33.9 to 39.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face gravelly medial sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 11 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; few (0.8) very fine roots and few (0.8) medium roots; common (3.0) very fine irregular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-160-250 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-4-5 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-40-75 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 18N06372; dry when described; observed in pit, small