IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crocamp
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10WA047001
  • User Pedon ID: S2010WA047001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N1978
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55368
  • 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: 48.6547203
  • Std. Longitude: -119.8380585
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37 N
  • Range: 24 E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 330m east and 20m north of SW corner
  • Location Description: Salmon Meadows SnoTel site, glacial outwash terrace
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA047—Okanogan
  • MLRA: 6—Cascade Mountains, Eastern Slope
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA749—Okanogan National Forest Area, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48119-F7—Coxit Mountain, Washington
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Toby Rodgers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Vitrixerandic Humicryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crocamp
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Vitrixerandic Humicryepts
  • PSC - 0 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 12.8 degrees C of soil temperature at 15cm and 10.6 degrees C of soil temperature at 50cm


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash mixed with outwash over outwash
  • Landscape: North Cascades mountain range
  • Landform: outwash terrace on mountain valley
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 25
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    andic soil properties

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—38

    0—38

    38—58

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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

    0

    1360

    270

    584

    60

    2.8

    5

    728

    Salmon Meadows

    SNOTEL

    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed, black (10YR 2/1) crushed, moist; mucky ashy fine sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 24 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity irregular and 3.0 fine low-continuity irregular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N03447; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; gravelly ashy fine sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 5 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 24 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity irregular and 3.0 fine low-continuity irregular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N03448; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 24 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity irregular and 3.0 fine low-continuity irregular pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N03449; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small. Weight of fragments >1/2 inch: 4lbs, 1oz
    2BC—58 to 150 centimeters (22.8 to 59.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, moist; very gravelly loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 2 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 77 um/s; rapid permeability; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity irregular and 3.0 fine low-continuity irregular pores; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 11N03450; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small. Weight of fragments >1/2 inch: 5lbs, 3oz