IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alderwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04-MPR-13
  • User Pedon ID: S2004WA061002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 04-MPR-13
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0766
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16021
  • 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: 47.8105278
  • Std. Longitude: -122.1684723
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27 north
  • Range: 5 east
  • Section: 21
  • Location Description: Snohomish County, East of Thrashers Corner, Maltby Road.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA061—Snohomish

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Regan
  • 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 #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alderwood
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, isotic, mesic Vitrandic Dystroxerepts
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: till plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    GASH

    PIMO

    POMU

    PSME

    THPL

    TSME

    Gaultheria shallon

    Pinus monophylla

    Polystichum munitum

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Thuja plicata

    Tsuga mertensiana

    salal

    singleleaf pinyon

    western swordfern

    Douglas-fir

    western redcedar

    mountain hemlock

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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

    5

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    76

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    315

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); 3.0 very coarse roots and 3.0 coarse roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Oe—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); 3.0 very coarse roots and 3.0 coarse roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—8 to 46 centimeters (3.1 to 18.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 21.0 very fine and fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume 5-41-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04349; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—46 to 81 centimeters (18.1 to 31.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 8 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.1 medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine irregular and 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial and pores; 20 percent by volume 5-41-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04350; observed in pit, small
    Bg—81 to 91 centimeters (31.9 to 35.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine irregular and 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry, and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese concretions throughout and 25 percent light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, and gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; 20 percent by volume 5-41-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04351; observed in pit, small
    2Cd—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1), gray (10YR 6/1), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 8 percent clay; massive; very hard, very firm; 10 percent white (10YR 8/1), dry, and gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions and 25 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry, and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese concretions throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 5-41-76 millimeter unspecified fragments.; observed in pit, small