IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ALderwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09-BAL-098
  • User Pedon ID: S09WA053098
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0467
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28283
  • 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: 47.0485840
  • Std. Longitude: -122.6285553
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: TRA 3, Fort Lewis Military Base
  • Map Unit: 2100—McChord-Everett complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA053—Pierce
  • MLRA: 2—Willamette and Puget Sound Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA777—Joint Base Lewis-McChord Area, Washington, Parts of Pierce and Thurston Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47122-A6—Nisqually, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bruce Lindsay
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, mesic Vitrandic Dystroxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 98
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ALderwood
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, isotic, mesic Vitrandic Dystroxerepts
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash and/or glacial drift over dense glaciomarine deposits
  • Landscape: glacial plains
  • Landform: summit drumlin
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/11/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    74 - 152

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    densic materials

    1—8

    8—20

    51—74

    74—152

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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

    16

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    —

    120

    —

    220

    1143

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    220

    9.4

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    10.6

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; 60 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 6 percent clay; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N01896; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 8.0 medium roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume indurated 2-4-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N01897; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 8.0 medium roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume indurated 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume indurated 2-41-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N01898; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bg—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); 70 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), 70 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; extremely gravelly loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 5 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry, iron-manganese masses and 20 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/1), dry, and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, iron depletions; 5 percent by volume indurated 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 70 percent by volume indurated 2-4-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N01899; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cd—74 to 152 centimeters (29.1 to 59.8 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; extremely gravelly loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 5 percent clay; massive; very hard, very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; very slow permeability; 0.8 fine roots in cracks; 0.8 very fine irregular pores; 5 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, and light gray (2.5Y 7/1), dry, iron depletions and 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry, iron-manganese masses; 5 percent by volume indurated 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume indurated 2-41-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 10N01900; moist when described; observed in pit, small