IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beaverpass
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005WA057106
  • User Pedon ID: S2005WA057106
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0317
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19768
  • Print Date: 1/10/2025

    • 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: 48.5277634
  • Std. Longitude: -120.9897232
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 9
  • Location Description: Thunder Basin Snotel Site
  • Map Unit: 8000—Beaverpass-Purple-Bacon complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA057—Skagit
  • MLRA: 3—Olympic and Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA774—North Cascades National Park Complex, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48120-E8—Mount Logan, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Toby Rodgers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy or sandy-skeletal, isotic, euic Terric Cryosaprists
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Beaverpass
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Purple
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: herbaceous organic material and/or woody organic material over alluvium
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: Valley Bottom mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainbase
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for long periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    sapric soil materials

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—150

    0—56

    56—89

    —-

    —-

    —-
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    9/15/2005

    9/15/2005

    15

    50

    —

    —

    9

    9
    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

    0

    —

    —

    1311

    —

    2300

    —

    —

    2.8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    817

    Thunder Basin

    SNOTEL
    Oa1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) mucky highly decomposed plant material; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. S08WA-057-001-01
    Oa2—15 to 56 centimeters (5.9 to 22.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) mucky highly decomposed plant material; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. S08WA-057-001-02
    Cg1—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 4 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 100 percent iron depletions throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. S08WA-057-001-03
    Cg2—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 100 percent iron depletions throughout; 10 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter mixed fragments.; observed in pit, small