IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Castlecrest
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03-JFD-04
  • User Pedon ID: 03OR035016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0390
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16397
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 42.8701057
  • Std. Longitude: -122.1652908
  • Datum: WGS84
  • PLSS Details: no PLSS in this area
  • Location Description: about 15 miles west and 20 miles north of Chiloquin
  • Map Unit: 4—Castlecrest gravelly ashy sandy loam, 2 to 10 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR035—Klamath
  • MLRA: 3—Olympic and Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR682—Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42122-G2—Union Peak, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dorr, Jim
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy, amorphic Typic Vitricryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Castlecrest
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy, amorphic Typic Vitricryands
  • PSC - 1 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/6/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: ash flow derived from pumice and/or ash flow derived from andesite
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/6/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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

    0—17

    1—80

    —17—

    —79—
    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

    2

    —

    —

    1835

    —

    129

    1118

    —

    35

    3.3

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    1000

    Annie Springs

    SNOTEL
    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter pumice fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    A—1 to 17 centimeters (0.4 to 6.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, dry; ashy sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 12.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter pumice fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02282; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw—17 to 80 centimeters (6.7 to 31.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; ashy loamy fine sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; 9.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial and 0.5 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter pumice fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02283; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    BC—80 to 180 centimeters (31.5 to 70.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; ashy sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; 9.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial and 0.1 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter pumice fragments; 1 percent krotovinas (volume percent); slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02284; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    C—180 to 250 centimeters (70.9 to 98.4 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, dry; ashy loamy sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 12.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter pumice fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry