IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Burroughs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012WA041502
  • User Pedon ID: S2012WA041502
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012WA041502
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0618
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72656
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 46.7561400
  • Std. Longitude: -121.7357000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 715m north and 525m west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: At the Pinnacle - Plumber Saddle, at the end of the Pinnacle peak trail
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA041—Lewis
  • MLRA: 3—Olympic and Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA754—Mount Rainier National Park, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Phil Roberts
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy-skeletal, glassy Typic Vitricryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Burroughs
  • PSC - 0 to 75 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 - Typic Vitricryand
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, isotic Typic Vitricryands
  • Taxon Kind - taxon above family
  • PSC - 0 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2012
  • 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: saddle
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated granite at 75cm
  • Surface Fragments: 15.00 percent indurated 250- to 600-millimeter granite, 15.00 percent indurated 5- to 75-millimeter granite, 15.00 percent indurated 75- to 250-millimeter granite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/2/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABLA

    CUNO

    VADE

    PHEM

    LUAR2

    PULSA

    CAMO32

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Cupressus nootkatensis

    Vaccinium deliciosum

    Phyllodoce empetriformis

    Lupinus arcticus

    Pulsatilla

    Canadanthus modestus

    subalpine fir

    Alaska cedar

    Cascade bilberry

    pink mountainheath

    arctic lupine

    pasqueflower

    giant mountain aster

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    75 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    volcanic glass

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—18

    0—75

    0—75

    32—75

    75—

    75—

    —18—

    —75—

    —75—

    —33—

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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

    70

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    1810

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    100

    2819

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    45

    2.8

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    2.2

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    A—0 to 32 centimeters (0.0 to 12.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, dry; very gravelly medial sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) medium irregular and common (3.0) coarse irregular pores; 10 percent by volume indurated 75-152-250 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume indurated 2-4-5 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume indurated 5-51-75 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02936; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—32 to 75 centimeters (12.6 to 29.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) crushed, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dry; very cobbly medial sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) medium irregular and common (3.0) coarse irregular pores; 5 percent by volume indurated 250-432-600 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume indurated 2-4-5 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume indurated 75-152-250 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 35 percent by volume indurated 5-51-75 millimeter granite fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 13N02937; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2R—75 to 100 centimeters (29.5 to 39.4 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small