IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Revel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014WA073077
  • User Pedon ID: S2014WA073077
  • User Site Association ID: Lake Whatcom Wastershed Update Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0397
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79563
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 48.6570000
  • Std. Longitude: -122.4630000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: std long -122.463, std lat 48.657; WGS84
  • Location Description: Chuckanut Mountain, 181 m east and 334 m south of the north west corner of section 32, T. 37 N and R. 3 E.
  • Map Unit: 126—Revel loam, 30 to 60 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA073—Whatcom
  • 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: WA673—Whatcom County Area, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48122-F4—Bellingham South, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bruce Lindsay and Carl Fuller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, 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 - Revel
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/2014
  • 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: colluvium derived from sandstone and/or residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 70cm
  • Geology: Bellingham Bay Member member of the Chuckanut Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/11/2014 (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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    70 -

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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—17

    17—70

    70—

    —17—

    —53—

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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

    60

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    438

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    270

    1080

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    155

    6.1

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 15N02035
    A—5 to 17 centimeters (2.0 to 6.7 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (5.0) very fine roots and many (5.0) fine roots and few (0.5) coarse roots; many (5.0) very fine tubular and many (5.0) fine tubular pores; 25 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N02036
    Bs1—17 to 39 centimeters (6.7 to 15.4 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry; gravelly sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (5.0) medium roots and many (5.0) fine roots and common (3.0) coarse roots; common (2.0) medium tubular and common (2.0) fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume flat angular indurated 75-160-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N02037
    Bs2—39 to 70 centimeters (15.4 to 27.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry; gravelly sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots and common (3.0) coarse roots; common (2.0) medium tubular and common (2.0) fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume flat angular indurated 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N02038
    R—70 centimeters (27.6 inches); bedrock; fragments.