IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Myerscreek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994WA047004
  • User Pedon ID: S1994WA047004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1994WA047004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0362
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66540
  • 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: 48.8138885
  • Std. Longitude: -119.1005554
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 38N
  • Range: 29E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet west and 400 feet north of southeast corner
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA047—Okanogan
  • MLRA: 43—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA749—Okanogan National Forest Area, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48119-G1—Mount Bonaparte, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RJR, BD
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Andic Cryochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Myerscreek
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Myerscreek
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Andic Cryochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/1992
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/10/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 781-92
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABLA2

    ALSI3

    ALVIS

    GADU

    LAOC

    LIBOL

    PIEN

    PIPO

    VASC

    Abronia latifolia

    Alnus sinuata

    Alnus viridis ssp. sinuata

    Gaylussacia dumosa

    Larix occidentalis

    Linnaea borealis var. longiflora

    Picea engelmannii

    Pinus ponderosa

    Vaccinium scoparium

    coastal sand verbena

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    Sitka alder

    dwarf huckleberry

    western larch

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    Engelmann spruce

    ponderosa pine

    grouse whortleberry

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

    albic horizon

    cambic horizon

    0—3

    3—30

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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

    30

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    1646

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    310

    711

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    3.9

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    Oe—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    E—4 to 7 centimeters (1.6 to 2.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), white (10YR 8/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02217
    Bw1—7 to 14 centimeters (2.8 to 5.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium and coarse roots; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P02218
    Bw2—14 to 35 centimeters (5.5 to 13.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02219
    2CB—35 to 83 centimeters (13.8 to 32.7 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 6 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine to medium roots; 3 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary.
    2Cd1—83 to 116 centimeters (32.7 to 45.7 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 8 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary.
    2Cd2—116 to 156 centimeters (45.7 to 61.4 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 18 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified.