IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Burroughs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012WA053503
  • User Pedon ID: S2012WA053503
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012WA053503
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0632
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70017
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 46.9321200
  • Std. Longitude: -121.8368200
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 475m south and 210m west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Mowich; near spray park. Below and East of Knapsack Pass
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA053—Pierce
  • 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: Medial-skeletal, glassy Pachic Fulvicryands
  • 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 - 5 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/8/2014
  • Classifier - Toby Rodgers
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Humic Vitricryand
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal, amorphic Humic Vitricryands
  • Taxon Kind - taxon above family
  • PSC - 5 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/13/2012
  • 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 and till
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: cirque
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: radial
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated andesite at 71cm
  • Surface Fragments: 25.00 percent indurated 600- to 800-millimeter andesite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/7/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, tundra
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PHEM

    VADE

    CAME7

    GECA

    POBI6

    Phyllodoce empetriformis

    Vaccinium deliciosum

    Cassiope mertensiana

    Gentiana calycosa

    Polygonum bistortoides

    pink mountainheath

    Cascade bilberry

    western moss heather

    Rainier pleated gentian

    American bistort

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    71 -

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

    umbric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    volcanic glass

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    lithologic discontinuity

    5—23

    5—71

    5—71

    47—71

    71—

    71—

    —18—

    —66—

    —66—

    —24—

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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

    10

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    1825

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    335

    2311

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    45

    2.8

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    2.2

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    A2—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, dry; very cobbly medial sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout and few (0.8) medium roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout; common (3.0) medium interstitial and common (3.0) fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume moderately coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter pumice fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume indurated 2-4-5 millimeter andesite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume indurated 250-432-600 millimeter andesite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume indurated 5-51-75 millimeter andesite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 35 percent by volume indurated 75-152-250 millimeter andesite fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oe—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout and common (3.0) medium roots throughout and many (8.0) fine roots throughout and few (0.8) coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A1—5 to 47 centimeters (2.0 to 18.5 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, dry; very cobbly medial sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (8.0) very fine roots throughout and common (3.0) medium roots throughout and many (8.0) fine roots throughout; common (3.0) medium interstitial and common (3.0) fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume indurated 2-4-5 millimeter andesite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume indurated 5-51-75 millimeter andesite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume indurated 75-152-250 millimeter andesite fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02986; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—71 to 96 centimeters (28.0 to 37.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small