IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ecola
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984OR007001
  • User Pedon ID: 84OR007001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1984OR007001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0890
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55678
  • 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: 46.0750008
  • Std. Longitude: -123.8972244
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 10W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 92 meters West on Spur road 73, NE 1/4 SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Clatsop County, Oregon.
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR007—Clatsop
  • MLRA: 1—Northern Pacific Coast Range, Foothills, and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Thorson, G. Green, J. Shipman, W. D. Nettleton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, isomesic Andic Humitropepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ecola
  • PSC - 25 to 94 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ecola
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, isomesic Andic Humitropept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Bedrock: with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    GASH

    PISI

    TSHE

    Gaultheria shallon

    Picea sitchensis

    Tsuga heterophylla

    salal

    Sitka spruce

    western hemlock

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—28

    28—56

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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

    50

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    46

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    315

    216

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    10

    14

    7

    10

    12

    8

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    357641

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    O—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); unknown texture; fragments.
    A—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, dry; silt loam; strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P04997; moist when described;. Field measured properties by Bromcresol green; rock fragments are soft, will slake in water.; common very fine and fine roots throughout; few medium and coarse roots throughout
    AB—6 to 31 centimeters (2.4 to 12.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior, dry; silt loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P04998; moist when described;. Field measured properties by Bromcresol green; rock fragments are soft, will slake in water.; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bw—31 to 59 centimeters (12.2 to 23.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P04999; moist when described;. Field measured properties by Bromcresol green; rock fragments ares soft, will slake in water.; few very fine and fine roots throughout
    BC—59 to 97 centimeters (23.2 to 38.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior, brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) exterior, dry; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; 65 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P05000; moist when described;. Field measured properties by Bromcresol green; rock fragments are soft, will slake in water.; few very fine roots throughout
    Cr—97 to 107 centimeters (38.2 to 42.1 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Lab sample # 84P05001