IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): BELLINGHAM
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956WA055002
  • User Pedon ID: S1956WA055002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34076
  • 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: 48.6458321
  • Std. Longitude: -122.9538879
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: Near the SW corner SW SE
  • Location Description: Walter Clark's farm on Orcas Island, 50 feet northwest of field gate.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA055—San Juan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA055—San Juan County, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. B. McCaleb and A. O. Ness
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - BELLINGHAM
  • PSC - 41 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/16/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/16/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    8.9

    13.3

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    AP—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07602; wet when described;
    A12—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07603; wet when described;
    A2—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 1 percent faint mottles; massive; hard when dry, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07604; wet when described;. mottles yellowish brown
    A2&B2—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), light gray (5Y 7/1) and light gray (5Y 7/2), dry; silty clay loam; 3 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine faint and 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine faint mottles; weak medium prismatic, and massive; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07605; wet when described;
    B2G—46 to 89 centimeters (18.1 to 35.0 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) clay; 3 percent medium faint mottles; strong medium prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A07606; wet when described;. mottles yellowish brown; roots only along larger vertical prism surfaces; larger prisms coated with organic (10YR 2/2) stains, the upper 6 inch aggregates are coated with light gray A2; continuous - phpvsfiid 190107; continuous - phpvsfiid 190107
    CG—89 to 122 centimeters (35.0 to 48.0 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) clay; 1 percent faint mottles; massive; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 40A07607; wet when described;. few roots along fracture cracks