IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ghost
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011WA053508
  • User Pedon ID: S2011WA053508
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0626
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69535
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 46.7386093
  • Std. Longitude: -121.8880539
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15 N
  • Range: 7 E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 305m north and 705m east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: 11-PHR-090 Nisqually river floodplain between tahoma creek and tumtum peak. In a wet marsh
  • 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-F8—Sawtooth Ridge, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Phil Roberts
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Euic Terric Cryosaprists
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ghost
  • PSC - 0 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/5/2014
  • Classifier - Toby Rodgers
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Terric Haplosaprists
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy or sandy-skeletal, isotic, euic, frigid Terric Haplosaprists
  • Taxon Kind - taxon above family
  • PSC - 0 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Classifier - Philip Roberts
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: organic material over alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for very brief periods
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for very long periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/20/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • 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

    histic epipedon

    hemic soil materials

    endosaturation

    sapric soil materials

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—160

    0—40

    0—8

    5—160

    8—96

    96—96

    —160—

    —40—

    —8—

    —155—

    —88—

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    655

    —

    180

    2007

    —

    75

    7.2

    —

    —

    6.7

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Oe—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); mucky peat; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; fragments.; wet when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa1—8 to 47 centimeters (3.1 to 18.5 inches); muck; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 13N02959; wet when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa2—47 to 96 centimeters (18.5 to 37.8 inches); muck; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 13N02960; wet when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—96 to 120 centimeters (37.8 to 47.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; mucky loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 1 percent clay; nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 13N02961; wet when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—120 to 160 centimeters (47.2 to 63.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; mucky loamy sand; 75 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 1 percent clay; 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. Lab sample # 13N02962; wet when described; observed in pit, small