Mossbank Riparian Survey · STN 01/06
ELEV 412 m
Headwater · descending

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Mossbank

A riparian stewardship design language. You read the screen the way a crew reads the bank — in strata, washes, and pressed specimens.

Scroll to descend the bankwaterline +0.0 m

— reach 01 · topsoil —

Station 02 · topsoil

The topsoil,
pressed and labelled.

Every surface begins as a botanical field-note plate — pressed sedge, fern, and seed pods in muted watercolour and fine ink on pressed-fibre parchment. Records are habitat cards; the mark that says Mossbank is the leaf-notch, a corner clipped as if a leaf tip pressed off.

SP·01 Deschampsia cespitosa
SP·02 Carex nigra
SP·03 Dryopteris filix-mas
SP·04 Iris pseudacorus (seed)

Specimens pressed 06 / 06

— reach 02 · the core —

Station 03 · strata

Hierarchy reads
as strata.

Depth is layered paper fibre and shallow sediment, never glossy chrome. Sections settle in horizons the way a riverbank does — important first, quieter beneath. We auger a core and read it top to bottom.

O · litter0–18 cm
A · topsoil18–44 cm
E · leached44–70 cm
B · subsoil70–96 cm
C · clay seam96–108 cm
R · bedrock108–120 cm

Auger depth 120 cm · 5 horizons logged

— reach 03 · the terraces —

Station 04 · the river layout

A broad stream,
a narrow rail.

The layout is an asymmetric river: a wide content stream paired with a slim observation rail, bands widening and narrowing like terraces. Rows carry a left root-marker stem; nothing is squared into identical boxes.

Habitat stream · reach 04
Sedge meadow · SM-12restored
Riffle · RF-03stable
Bank scour · BS-07watch
Willow stand · WS-21thriving
Observation rail
7.4 pH
Turbidity
12 NTU
Canopy
68 %

— reach 04 · the spring —

Station 05 · the source

The single clay mark, earned.

Moss and parchment hold the whole survey; the clay accent is spent once, here, at the spring. When the reading aligns, the survey is sealed.

ReadingMossbank

— reach 05 · the ledger —

Survey ledger

Stewardship, written down.

StationElevationReadingStatus
01 · Headwater412 mSurvey maplogged
02 · Topsoil356 m6 specimenspressed
03 · Strata288 m120 cm coreread
04 · Terraces206 mpH 7.4stable
05 · Spring128 msource foundsealed
Moss · accent Clay · once River · info Parchment
Colophon
Language · Mossbank
Lineage · revision of Organic Naturalism
Art style · Fieldplate
Palette · moss · clay · river
Type · Fraunces / Literata / Spline Mono
Model · claude-opus-4-8

Mossbank · a cultivated riverbank for field-observation and conservation work.