IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tamanos
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012WA053588
  • User Pedon ID: S2012WA053588
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012WA053588
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0643
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73257
  • 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: 46.8895390
  • Std. Longitude: -121.6738040
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16 N
  • Range: 9 E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 540m north and 200m east of SW corner
  • Location Description: Mount Rainier National Park, terminus of Emmons Glacier, White River drainage.
  • 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-H6—Sunrise, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Toby Rodgers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy-skeletal, glassy, nonacid, subgelic Glacic Haplorthels
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tamanos
  • PSC - 25 to 50 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 - Glacic Haplorthel
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy or sandy-skeletal, isotic Glacic Haplorthels
  • Taxon Kind - taxon above family
  • PSC - 25 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/2012
  • Classifier - Toby Rodgers
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Landscape: ice-margin complex
  • Landform: end moraine
  • 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
  • Surface Fragments: 25.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75- to 250-millimeter andesite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/28/2012 (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 - rain
  • Current Air Temp - 4
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ALSI3

    Alnus sinuata

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

    permafrost

    very strongly coherent

    50 - 150

    - 100 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    permafrost

    0—20

    50—150

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    —100—
    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

    30

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    1525

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    40

    2743

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    60

    2.8

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    0

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (5YR 2.5/1) crushed, very dark gray (5YR 3/1) crushed, dry; gravelly loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, 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 by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-5-5 millimeter andesite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-163-250 millimeter andesite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-41-75 millimeter andesite fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03029; moist when described; observed in cut. Horizon likely Mt. St. Helens Wn tephra.
    C—20 to 50 centimeters (7.9 to 19.7 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) crushed, gray (5YR 5/1) crushed, dry; very gravelly loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.8) very fine roots throughout; common (3.0) very fine low-continuity interstitial and common (3.0) fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-5-5 millimeter andesite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-163-250 millimeter andesite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-41-75 millimeter andesite fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03030; moist when described; observed in cut. Horizon likely Mt. St. Helens Wn tephra.