IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): COVELAND
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956WA055006
  • User Pedon ID: S1956WA055006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0998
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34057
  • 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: 48.5000000
  • Std. Longitude: -123.0711136
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: NE corner of the NE SW
  • Location Description: 75 feet west of the 1/4 line fence and 25 feet south of road on San Juan Island
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA055—San Juan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA055—San Juan County, Washington
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. B. McCaleb and A. O. Ness
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - COVELAND
  • PSC - 46 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/17/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/17/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • 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

    559

    8.9

    AP—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07470; wet when described;
    A2—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly sandy loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07471; wet when described;
    B2&A2—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) and gray (5Y 6/1) sandy clay loam; 21 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine and medium distinct mottles; moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots between peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07472; wet when described;
    B2T—46 to 81 centimeters (18.1 to 31.9 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) clay; 21 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine and medium distinct mottles; strong fine and medium prismatic structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; between peds; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A07473; wet when described;. very dark grayish brown organic coatings on vertical sides of the larger prisms; continuous - phpvsfiid 190098; continuous - phpvsfiid 190098
    C—81 to 112 centimeters (31.9 to 44.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) and gray (5Y 5/1) clay; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07474; wet when described;