Blue Mountains, Canyon Mtn. locality, Baldy Mountain
alpine fell field at about 2200 m on serpentinized peridotite, but timber up over 2700 m
on nonserpentine soils in Strawberry Range beyond Baldy Mountain

Blue Mountains, Canyon Mtn. locality, Vinegar Hill (2478 m)
a ridge of serpentinized peridotite leads off to the left, just above road

Blue Mountains, Canyon Mtn. locality, along ridge NW from Vinegar Hill
Lithic Haplocryoll on shoulder of ridge with whitebark pine/sagebrush/buckwheat–phlox/sedge plant community with sparse Douglas-fir, patchy juniper (J. communis), and bluegrass, and forbs

Blue Mountains, Canyon Mtn. locality, along ridge NW from Vinegar Hill
view from footslope sagebrush–rumex plant community on deep Haplocryoll across road
to backslope with ponderosa pine/sagebrush/buckwheat–phlox/sedge on moderately deep Cryalf

Blue Mountains, Canyon Mtn. locality, Aldrich Mountains, south of Mt. Vernon
ponderosa pine–Douglas-fir plant community on serpentine Typic Argixerolls and
juniper (J. scopulorum)/Cercocarpus ledifolius/Idaho fescue–bluegrass on Lithic Haploxerolls

Blue Mountains, Canyon Mtn. locality, West Bank west of Canyon City
juniper (J. scopulorum)/wheatgrass plant community on Mollisols of serpentine melange,
except that main grass is stipa (Achnatherum thurberiana) here

Northern Cascade–Fraser River, Stuart Lake locality
Mt Sidney Williams (nonserpentine) with a serpentine bluff on right, spotty serpentine in clearcut

Northern Cascade–Fraser River, Shulaps locality
subalpine serpentine Inceptisols (Cryepts) above Blue Creek
whitebark pine/willow–low juniper–buckwheat–kinnikinnick/Sedum lanceolatum–arctic lupine

Northern Cascade–Fraser River, Hozameen locality
Olivine Mountain (within Tulameen concentric body) from upstream along the Tulameen River

Northern Cascade–Fraser River, Twin Sisters locality
Twin Sisters (dunite) from Washington highway 9, Mt. Baker, an old volcano, on left

Gulf of Alaska, Eklutna locality, Chugach Range
Inceptisols and Mollisols on open S-facing slope with buffaloberry (Sheperdia canadensis)–low juniper (J. communis)–kinnikinnick (A. uva-ursi)–prickly saxifrage (S. tricuspidata)/fescue grass

Gulf of Alaska, Union Bay locality, cropped photo of P. Krosse
alpine meadow (Inceptisols) and forest (Inceptisols and Spodosols) on Golden Mountain,
one of the first Alaska-type (concentric) bodies thoroughly described by petrologists

Denali–Yukon, Nahlin locality, west of Atlin, alpine tundra
Inceptisols with caespitose willow–yellow mountain avens (Dryas drummondii)/sedges–grass, and patches of mountain-heather (C. tetragona), silene (S. acaulis), and stonecrop (S. lanceolatum)

Northern Alaska–Kuskokwim Mountains, Kanuti locality
east end of serpentine Caribou Mountain, alpine tundra with white spruce forests on sides
forbs (including Dryas octapetala), polar grass, and lichens on summit of ridge in foreground

Northern Alaska–Kuskokwim Mountains, Kanuti locality
Caribou mountain side with alpine tundra on Inceptisols (Eutrocryepts) with crowberry (Empetrum nigrum)–blueberry (V. uliginosum)–dwarf willow–Labrador tea–Cassiope tetragona)/moss/lichens

Northern Alaska–Kuskokwim Mountains, Kanuti locality
Caribou Mountain solifluction hollow, wet Inceptisols with dwarf birch (B. glandulosa)–Labrador tea–mountain-heather (C. tetragona)–alpine blueberry (V. uliginosum)/sedges/sphagnum/lichens

Northern Alaska–Kuskokwim Mountains, Livengood locality
well-drained Inceptisol (Typic Eutrocryept) in frost-shattered serpentine on S-facing slope
white spruce (P. glauca)/kinnickinick (A uva-ursi)/low juniper (J. communis)/mosses, lichens

Northern Alaska–Kuskokwim Mountains, Livengood locality
somewhat poorly-drained Inceptisol in lithologically mixed colluvium on N-facing slope
black spruce (P. mariana)/Ledum palustre decumbens plant community with much sphagnun

Northern Alaska–Kuskokwim Mountains, Livengood locality
well-drained Inceptisol (Typic Eutrocryept) in frost-shattered serpentine on ridge summit
paper birch (B. papifera)/Labrador tea–lingonberry (V. vitis-idaea)/Calamagrostris canadensis

Stillwater complex, Rocky Mountain Range
Bear Tooth Plateau south from alpine tundra on Iron Mountain (3075 m asl)

Stillwater complex, Rocky Mountain Range
deep Alfisol (Cryalf) of pyroxenite on north side of Iron Mountain with
spruce (P. engelmannii)–pine (P. albicaulis)–fir (A. lasiocarpa)/grouseberry (V. scopularum)

Stillwater complex, Rocky Mountain Range
Alfisol (Haplocryalf) of pyroxenite on Chrome Mountain (3058 m)
lupine (L. bicolor)–bistort (P. bistortoides)–sandwort (Minuartia sp.)/tufted hairgrass/sedges

Stillwater complex, Rocky Mountain Range, Stillwater Mine
located where Stillwater River crosses Stillwater complex, paladium and platinum concentration