IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Everett
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09-BAL-004
  • User Pedon ID: S09WA053004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0468
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28284
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 47.0818329
  • Std. Longitude: -122.6500549
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: TA 3, Fort Lewis Military Base
  • Map Unit: 3105—Everett-McChord complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA053—Pierce
  • MLRA: 2—Willamette and Puget Sound Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA777—Joint Base Lewis-McChord Area, Washington, Parts of Pierce and Thurston Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47122-A6—Nisqually, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bruce Lindsay
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, isotic, mesic Vitrandic Dystroxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Everett
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, isotic, mesic Vitrandic Dystroxerepts
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash and/or glacial outwash
  • Landscape: glacial plains
  • Landform: esker
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/20/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    volcanic glass

    0—40

    0—80

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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

    2

    —

    —

    100

    —

    180

    1143

    —

    220

    9.4

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    —

    10.6

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    A—0 to 40 centimeters (0.0 to 15.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; very gravelly coarse sand; 90 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 2 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.1 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume indurated 75-100-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume indurated 2-55-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N01901; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—40 to 80 centimeters (15.7 to 31.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; extremely gravelly coarse sand; 90 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 25 percent by volume indurated 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume indurated 2-41-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5. Lab sample # 10N01902; moist when described; observed in pit, small