IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05-KDL-02
  • User Pedon ID: S2005WA077001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 05-KDL-02
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0679
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17060
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 46.6451111
  • Std. Longitude: -121.3850250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 2
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA077—Yakima
  • MLRA: 3—Olympic and Cascade Mountains
  • Regional Office: 1—Portland, OR
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA680—Wenatchee National Forest, Naches Area, Washington, Parts of Kittitas and Yakima Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46121-F4—White Pass, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Alan Busacca, Jen Bell, Chandra Neils, Kelley Paup-Lefferts
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy-skeletal, amorphic Andic Haplocryods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpar
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy-skeletal, amorphic Andic Haplocryods
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/29/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    ABAM

    ACTR

    CLUN2

    RHAL2

    SYMPH

    TSHE

    VAME

    Abies amabilis

    Achlys triphylla

    Clintonia uniflora

    Rhododendron albiflorum

    Symphoricarpos

    Tsuga heterophylla

    Vaccinium membranaceum

    Pacific silver fir

    sweet after death

    bride's bonnet

    Cascade azalea

    snowberry

    western hemlock

    thinleaf huckleberry

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

    andic soil properties

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    cambic horizon

    5—94

    18—29

    29—46

    46—94

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    —17—

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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

    14

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    1354.5

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    194

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03902; observed in pit, small
    C—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 50 percent light gray (10YR 7/1), 50 percent gray (10YR 6/1) and 50 percent light gray (10YR 7/1), dry; ashy coarse sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03903; observed in pit, small
    Oa—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); highly decomposed plant material; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03904; observed in pit, small
    2E—18 to 29 centimeters (7.1 to 11.4 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; ashy loamy very fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 05N03905; observed in pit, small
    3Bs—29 to 46 centimeters (11.4 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; ashy sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 2 percent distinct platy weakly coherent cemented ortstein nodules; 10 percent by volume strongly cemented cemented 2-45-75 millimeter andesite fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03906; observed in pit, small
    4Bw1—46 to 75 centimeters (18.1 to 29.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry; gravelly ashy sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium and coarse roots throughout; 1 percent distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented ortstein nodules on surfaces along root channels and 1 percent fine distinct manganese masses on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume indurated 75-150-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 15 percent by volume strongly coherent cemented 2-45-75 millimeter andesite fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03907; observed in pit, small
    4Bw2—75 to 94 centimeters (29.5 to 37.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry; very gravelly ashy sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent fine distinct manganese masses on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume indurated 75-150-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 25 percent by volume strongly cemented cemented 2-45-75 millimeter andesite fragments. Lab sample # 05N03908; observed in pit, small