IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Neskowin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984OR041007
  • User Pedon ID: 84OR041007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1984OR041007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0901
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55689
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 44.2854000
  • Std. Longitude: -124.1055000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15S
  • Range: 12W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4 NW1/4 SE1/4
  • Location Description: Lincoln County, OR. About 1/3 of the way down Recreation Trail from viewpoint on Cape Perpetua.
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR041—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 1—Northern Pacific Coast Range, Foothills, and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. D. Nettleton, W. R. Patching, and T. D. Thorson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial, ferrihydritic, isomesic Alic Fulvudands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Neskowin
  • PSC - 25 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Neskowin
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial, isomesic Typic Dystrandept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • 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 45 to <100
  • 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

    MADI

    PISI

    RUSP

    Maianthemum dilatatum

    Picea sitchensis

    Rubus spectabilis

    false lily of the valley

    Sitka spruce

    salmonberry

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

    umbric epipedon

    0—86

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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

    55

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    152

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    180

    205

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    10

    14

    7

    10

    12

    8

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    356032

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    O—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Not sampled.
    A1—3 to 16 centimeters (1.2 to 6.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately smeary; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P05065; moist when described;. Field measured pH is Bromcresol Green and Chlorophenol Red.; many very fine roots throughout; few fine to coarse roots throughout
    A2—16 to 39 centimeters (6.3 to 15.4 inches); black (10YR 2/1) exterior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately smeary; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P05066; moist when described;. Field measured pH is Bromcresol Green and Chlorophenol Red.; common very fine roots throughout; few fine roots throughout
    A3—39 to 64 centimeters (15.4 to 25.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately smeary; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 2.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P05067; moist when described;. Field measured pH is Bromcresol Green and Chlorophenol Red.; few very fine roots throughout
    A4—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and 40 percent brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately smeary; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 84P05068; moist when described;. Field measured pH is Bromcresol Green and Chlorophenol Red.; few very fine roots throughout
    R—89 to 110 centimeters (35.0 to 43.3 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Lab sample # 84P05069