IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Squires
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014WA057040
  • User Pedon ID: S2014WA057040
  • User Site Association ID: Lake Whatcom Wastershed Update Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0390
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79556
  • 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: 48.6090000
  • Std. Longitude: -122.4240000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: std long -122.424, std lat 48.609; WGS84
  • Location Description: Blanchard Mountain. 727 m N and 159 m W of SE corner of section 18, R. 3 E, T.36 N
  • Map Unit: 135—Squires very gravelly silt loam, 30 to 65 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA057—Skagit
  • MLRA: 2—Willamette and Puget Sound Valleys
  • Regional Office: 1—Portland, OR
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-MTV—Mount Vernon, Washington
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA657—Skagit County Area, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48122-E4—Bow, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bruce Lindsay and Carl Fuller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, mesic Typic Dystroxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Squires
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, isotic, mesic Typic Dystroxerepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/4/2014
  • Classifier - Bruce Lindsay
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from phyllite and/or till
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated phyllite at 66cm
  • Geology: Darington Phyllite formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/4/2014 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Bruce Lindsay and Carl Fuller
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    66 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—12

    12—51

    66—

    —12—

    —39—

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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

    38

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    —

    332

    —

    130

    1397

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    180

    8.9

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 15N01997
    Oe—2 to 7 centimeters (0.8 to 2.8 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 15N01998
    A/E—7 to 12 centimeters (2.8 to 4.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; flaggy sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) very fine roots and common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots and common (3.0) coarse roots; common (3.0) very fine tubular and common (3.0) fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-265-380 millimeter phyllite fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 15N01999
    Bs1—12 to 39 centimeters (4.7 to 15.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; extremely flaggy sandy loam; 5 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) very fine roots and common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots and common (3.0) coarse roots; few (0.5) medium tubular and few (0.5) fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter phyllite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter phyllite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-265-380 millimeter phyllite fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N02000
    Bs2—39 to 51 centimeters (15.4 to 20.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; very flaggy coarse sandy loam; 5 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) very fine roots and common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots and common (3.0) coarse roots; few (0.5) medium tubular and few (0.5) fine tubular pores; 25 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter phyllite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-265-380 millimeter phyllite fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N02001
    C—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; very channery coarse sandy loam; 5 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.5) medium roots; 5 percent fine spherical indurated cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 10 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 40 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter phyllite fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 15N02002
    R—66 centimeters (26.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.