IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Summerland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011WA053503
  • User Pedon ID: S2011WA053503
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0621
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70138
  • Print Date: 5/7/2025

    • 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: 46.8372231
  • Std. Longitude: -121.7513885
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15 N
  • Range: 8 E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 420m south and 805m west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: 11-PHR-020 Comet Falls Trail, just below waterfalls, on east bank of creek in steep meadow / open slide path
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA053—Pierce
  • 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: Ashy-skeletal, glassy Humic Vitricryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Summerland
  • PSC - 0 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/5/2014
  • Classifier - Toby Rodgers
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Medial-skeletal, amorphic Humic Vitricryands
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal, amorphic Humic Vitricryands
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • PSC - 0 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/13/2011
  • Classifier - Philip Roberts
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash and colluvium
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: glacial-valley wall
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 15.00 percent nonflat indurated 250- to 600-millimeter mixed, 10.00 percent nonflat indurated 600- to 800-millimeter mixed, 25.00 percent nonflat indurated 75- to 250-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/13/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Air Temp - 10
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    —

    andic soil properties

    umbric epipedon

    volcanic glass

    cambic horizon

    —

    0—106

    0—25

    0—106

    72—106

    —-

    —106—

    —25—

    —106—

    —34—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    7/13/2011

    7/13/2011

    15

    50

    —

    —

    10

    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

    84

    —

    —

    1450

    —

    270

    2616

    —

    45

    3.9

    —

    —

    3.3

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A1—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; very gravelly medial sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular 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; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-152-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-51-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02942; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—25 to 47 centimeters (9.8 to 18.5 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; very gravelly medial sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-432-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-152-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-51-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    AB—47 to 72 centimeters (18.5 to 28.3 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; very cobbly medial fine sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-432-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-51-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-152-250 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—72 to 106 centimeters (28.3 to 41.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; very cobbly medial sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.8 medium roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-432-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-51-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-152-250 millimeter mixed fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small