IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mysticlake
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011WA041504
  • User Pedon ID: S2011WA041504
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0613
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69145
  • 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: 46.7822227
  • Std. Longitude: -121.7361145
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15 N
  • Range: 8 E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 365m north and 545m west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: 11-PHR-073 Paradise picnic area, upslope and to the S of the visitor's center in meadow (near pit in trees). Pit was used in 2011 field assist
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA041—Lewis
  • MLRA: 3—Olympic and Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA754—Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46121-G6—Mt Rainier East, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Phil Roberts
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial, glassy, acid Typic Cryaquands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mysticlake
  • PSC - 3 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/4/2014
  • Classifier - Toby Rodgers
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Medial, amorphic Typic Cryaquands
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial, amorphic Typic Cryaquands
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • PSC - 3 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/28/2011
  • Classifier - Philip Roberts
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over residuum
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: lava plateau
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/28/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Air Temp - 9
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    andic soil properties

    umbric epipedon

    volcanic glass

    lithologic discontinuity

    aquic conditions

    endosaturation

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    3—103

    3—28

    3—103

    12—12

    22—103

    22—103

    22—33

    22—33

    33—33

    42—42

    —100—

    —25—

    —100—

    —-

    —81—

    —81—

    —11—

    —11—

    —-

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

    9/28/2011

    9/28/2011

    9/28/2011

    10

    50

    15

    —

    —

    —

    5

    6

    6
    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

    10

    —

    —

    1600

    —

    40

    2819

    —

    45

    3.9

    —

    —

    3.3

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 9 centimeters (1.2 to 3.5 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; medial sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 13N02921; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—9 to 12 centimeters (3.5 to 4.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry; medial loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 2 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02922; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Ab—12 to 22 centimeters (4.7 to 8.7 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; medial sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02923; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bwb—22 to 33 centimeters (8.7 to 13.0 inches); 80 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; medial sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 5 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels and 15 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02924; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    3Ab—33 to 37 centimeters (13.0 to 14.6 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; medial sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-51-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02925; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    3Bwb—37 to 42 centimeters (14.6 to 16.5 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; medial loamy sand; 75 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 2 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 13N02926; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    4Ab—42 to 49 centimeters (16.5 to 19.3 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; medial sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    4C—49 to 103 centimeters (19.3 to 40.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry; very gravelly ashy sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-432-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-152-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-51-75 millimeter mixed fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small