IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Forbidden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005WA057104
  • User Pedon ID: S2005WA057104
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0801
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18776
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 48.5816650
  • Std. Longitude: -121.0144424
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 306 meters South and 748 meters east of NW corner
  • Map Unit: 9010—Doubtful-Treen-Rock outcrop complex, 35 to 100 percent slopes
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA057—Skagit
  • MLRA: 3—Olympic and Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA774—North Cascades National Park Complex, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48121-E1—Forbidden Peak, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Toby Rodgers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, isotic Andic Dystrocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Forbidden (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 14 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Forbidden
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed tephra over glacial drift
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: Valley wall of mountain slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    albic horizon

    cambic horizon

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    14—68

    14—16

    16—68

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

    8/27/2005

    8/27/2005

    50

    15

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    10

    10
    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

    37

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    1006

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    350

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    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Oe—4 to 14 centimeters (1.6 to 5.5 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    E—14 to 16 centimeters (5.5 to 6.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face, dry; ashy sandy loam; 4 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—16 to 46 centimeters (6.3 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, dry; very gravelly ashy sandy loam; 5 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 medium roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout and 4.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume indurated 75-152-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume indurated 2-51-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2BC1—46 to 68 centimeters (18.1 to 26.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) broken face, dry; extremely gravelly loamy sand; 2 percent clay; structureless single grain; soft, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume indurated 250-432-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume indurated 75-152-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 50 percent by volume indurated 2-51-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2BC2—68 to 90 centimeters (26.8 to 35.4 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face, dry; extremely gravelly loamy sand; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume indurated 250-432-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume indurated 75-152-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 55 percent by volume indurated 2-51-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2C—90 to 152 centimeters (35.4 to 59.8 inches); variegated extremely gravelly coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume indurated 250-432-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume indurated 75-152-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 50 percent by volume indurated 2-51-75 millimeter mixed fragments.; dry when described; observed in pit, small