IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rinker
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014WA057042
  • User Pedon ID: S2014WA057042
  • User Site Association ID: Lake Whatcom Wastershed Update Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0392
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79558
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 48.6170000
  • Std. Longitude: -122.4190000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: std long -122.419, std lat 48.517; WGS84
  • Location Description: Blanchard Mountain. 59 m N and 251 M E of the SW corner of section 10, T.36 N, R.3 E; WGS84.
  • Map Unit: 107—Rinker very channery 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, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • 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 - Rinker
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 90 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/8/2014
  • Classifier - Bruce Lindsay
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • 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: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated phyllite at 90cm
  • Geology: Darington Phyllite formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/8/2014 (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

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    90 -

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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—40

    90—

    —12—

    —28—

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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

    15

    —

    —

    435

    —

    270

    1854

    —

    135

    6.7

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    —

    —

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    Oi—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 15N02009
    A—8 to 12 centimeters (3.1 to 4.7 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly sandy loam; 14 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (5.0) very fine roots and many (5.0) medium roots and many (5.0) fine roots and many (5.0) coarse roots; many (5.0) tubular pores; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter phyllite fragments observed by visual inspection method; extremely acid, pH 3.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N02010
    Bs1—12 to 25 centimeters (4.7 to 9.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; 14 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (5.0) very fine roots and many (5.0) medium roots and many (5.0) fine roots and many (5.0) coarse roots; common (2.0) medium tubular and common (2.0) fine tubular pores; 45 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter phyllite fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N02011
    Bs2—25 to 40 centimeters (9.8 to 15.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 12 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; common (2.0) medium tubular and common (2.0) fine tubular pores; 45 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N02012
    C—40 to 90 centimeters (15.7 to 35.4 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 18 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots; 20 percent fine spherical light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 40 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N02013
    R—90 centimeters (35.4 inches); bedrock; fragments.