IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Montborne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014WA057046
  • User Pedon ID: S2014WA057046
  • User Site Association ID: Lake Whatcom Wastershed Update Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0395
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79561
  • 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: 48.6230000
  • Std. Longitude: -122.2930000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: std long -122.293, std lat 48.623; WGS84
  • Location Description: Alger Mountain. 777 m N and 81 m W of SE corner of section 9, T.36N, R. 4E.
  • Map Unit: 94—Montborne very gravelly silt loam, 3 to 30 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-E3—Alger, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bruce Lindsay and Carl Fuller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Aquic 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 - Montborne
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Aquic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 85 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/2014
  • 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: till
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/16/2014 (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

    densic material

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    85 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    0—20

    20—85

    85—

    —20—

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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

    11

    —

    —

    332

    —

    230

    1905

    —

    130

    6.7

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    Oi—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N02025
    A—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2), brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry; gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate very 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) very fine tubular and many (5.0) fine tubular pores; 30 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N02026
    Bs1—20 to 45 centimeters (7.9 to 17.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry; very gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots and common (3.0) coarse roots; common (3.0) medium tubular and common (3.0) fine tubular pores; 20 percent medium noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6) iron-manganese masses; 10 percent by volume 75-160-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume rounded 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N02027
    Bs2—45 to 70 centimeters (17.7 to 27.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), dry; very gravelly loam; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots and common (3.0) coarse roots; common (3.0) medium tubular and common (3.0) fine tubular pores; 30 percent fine iron depletions and 30 percent fine iron-manganese masses; 5 percent by volume 75-160-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume rounded 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N02028
    Bs3—70 to 85 centimeters (27.6 to 33.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 12 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots and common (3.0) coarse roots; common (3.0) medium tubular and common (3.0) fine tubular pores; 20 percent fine iron-manganese masses; , 40 percent by weight 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N02029
    Cd—85 centimeters (33.5 inches); fragments.