IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Deerlick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007WA073101
  • User Pedon ID: S2007WA073101
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0319
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19770
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 48.8283653
  • Std. Longitude: -121.0091324
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 39N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 32
  • Location Description: On saddle south of Devil's dome trail, between trail and devil's creek. Fieldsheet 38.
  • Map Unit: 6010—Roland-Skymo-Deerlick complex, 0 to 25 percent slopes
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA073—Whatcom
  • MLRA: 3—Olympic and Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA774—North Cascades National Park Complex, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48121-G1—Pumpkin Mountain, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Toby Rodgers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, amorphic over isotic, frigid Aquic Udivitrands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Deerlick
  • PSC - 8 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Deerlick
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash mixed with glacial drift over glacial drift
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: Saddle on Valley Wall mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Ponding: occasional ponding for brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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

    andic soil properties

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    8—54

    8—18

    20—54

    54—

    —-

    —-

    —-

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

    7/1/2007

    7/1/2007

    15

    50

    —

    —

    9

    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

    2

    —

    —

    853

    —

    245

    1651

    —

    —

    6.1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Oa—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 4.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. S08WA-073-002-01
    A—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/3) ashy sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 8 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 4.0 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. S08WA-073-002-02
    Bw—20 to 54 centimeters (7.9 to 21.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) ashy sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 10 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. S08WA-073-002-03; surface of horizon reddened by fire
    Cg—54 to 80 centimeters (21.3 to 31.5 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 5 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 35 percent by volume 5-50-75 millimeter mixed fragments.; observed in pit, small. S08WA-073-002-04