IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tatoosh
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012WA053505
  • User Pedon ID: S2012WA053505
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012WA053505
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0634
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72782
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 46.8029000
  • Std. Longitude: -121.7157600
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 530m north and 235m east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Toe of Paradise Glacier, past end of maintained trail
  • 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: Ashy-skeletal, glassy Lithic 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 - Tatoosh
  • PSC - 0 to 20 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 - Lithic Cryorthent
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, isotic Lithic Cryorthents
  • Taxon Kind - taxon above family
  • PSC - 0 to 20 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/14/2012
  • 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: debris apron mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated andesite at 20cm
  • Surface Fragments: 40.00 percent indurated 2- to 75-millimeter andesite, 10.00 percent indurated 250- to 600-millimeter andesite, 15.00 percent indurated 75- to 250-millimeter andesite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/27/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - permanent snow and ice
  • 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

    ALVIS

    CANI2

    LUPE

    ABLA

    ATFI

    LUAR2

    Alnus viridis ssp. sinuata

    Carex nigricans

    Luetkea pectinata

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Athyrium filix-femina

    Lupinus arcticus

    Sitka alder

    black alpine sedge

    partridgefoot

    subalpine fir

    common ladyfern

    arctic lupine

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    20 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—18

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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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    1950

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    135

    3429

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    45

    2.2

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    1.1

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) crushed, light gray (10YR 7/1) crushed, dry; very cobbly medial sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 4 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.8) very fine interstitial and few (0.8) fine interstitial pores; 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 20 percent by volume indurated 75-152-250 millimeter andesite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume indurated 2-4-5 millimeter andesite fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 13N02989; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—20 to 45 centimeters (7.9 to 17.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small