IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Narada
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012WA053583
  • User Pedon ID: S2012WA053583
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012WA053583
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0638
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71608
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 46.9159960
  • Std. Longitude: -121.5442700
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17 N
  • Range: 10 E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 560m south and 690m west of NE corner
  • Location Description: Mount Rainier National Park, along White River below junction of Highway 410 and White River Entrance road.
  • 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-H5—White River Park, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Toby Rodgers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy, glassy Aquandic Haplocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Narada
  • PSC - 27 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/8/2014
  • Classifier - Toby Rodgers
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oxyaquic Humicryept
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic Oxyaquic Humicryepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxon above family
  • PSC - 27 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/2012
  • Classifier - Toby Rodgers
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from andesite over lahar deposits
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for very brief periods begining in may
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/26/2012 (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
  • Current Weather - rain
  • Current Air Temp - 7
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PSME

    TSHE

    ABPR

    PIEN

    ABAM

    CHME

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Tsuga heterophylla

    Abies procera

    Picea engelmannii

    Abies amabilis

    Chimaphila menziesii

    Douglas-fir

    western hemlock

    noble fir

    Engelmann spruce

    Pacific silver fir

    little prince's pine

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    lithologic discontinuity

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    2—50

    50—150

    50—150

    115—150

    115—150

    —48—

    —100—

    —100—

    —35—

    —35—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    6/26/2012

    6/26/2012

    15

    50

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    7.8

    7
    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

    1

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    975

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    40

    1753

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    90

    6.1

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    5

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; 65 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 2 percent clay; many (8.0) fine high-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small. Thin discontinuous tephra between Oi and Oe horizons, likely Mt. St. Helens 1980 tephra.
    A1—2 to 8 centimeters (0.8 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 2 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.8) very fine roots throughout and few (0.8) fine roots throughout; common (3.0) very fine low-continuity interstitial and common (3.0) fine low-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Horizon likely Mt. St. Helens Wn tephra.
    A2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); 80 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed and 20 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed fine sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 1 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.8) very fine roots throughout and few (0.8) medium roots throughout and few (0.8) fine roots throughout and few (0.8) coarse roots throughout; common (3.0) very fine low-continuity interstitial and common (3.0) fine low-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03005; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Horizon likely Mt. St. Helens Wn tephra.
    A3—20 to 50 centimeters (7.9 to 19.7 inches); black (10YR 2/1) crushed loamy fine sand; 75 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 1 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.8) very fine roots throughout and few (0.8) medium roots throughout and few (0.8) fine roots throughout and few (0.8) coarse roots throughout; common (3.0) very fine low-continuity interstitial and common (3.0) fine low-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A4—50 to 80 centimeters (19.7 to 31.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) crushed loamy fine sand; 75 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 1 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.8) very fine roots throughout and few (0.8) medium roots throughout and few (0.8) fine roots throughout; common (3.0) very fine low-continuity interstitial and common (3.0) fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 10 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter andesite fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03006; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A5—80 to 115 centimeters (31.5 to 45.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) crushed loamy fine sand; 75 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 1 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.8) very fine roots throughout and few (0.8) fine roots throughout; common (3.0) very fine low-continuity interstitial and common (3.0) fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bg—115 to 150 centimeters (45.3 to 59.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face gravelly loam; 50 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 12 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few (0.8) very fine roots throughout; common (3.0) very fine low-continuity irregular and common (3.0) fine low-continuity irregular pores; 5 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries on faces of peds and 20 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries on surfaces along root channels; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 5-41-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 13N03007; moist when described; observed in pit, small