IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sankey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989OR015011
  • User Pedon ID: 89OR015011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0313
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62246
  • Print Date: 11/13/2025

    • 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: 42.2819443
  • Std. Longitude: -124.1074982
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 38S
  • Range: 12W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: About 330 feet N and 1650 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: High Prairie above Chetco River, Curry County, Oregon.
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR015—Curry
  • MLRA: 1—Northern Pacific Coast Range, Foothills, and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Haplumbrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sankey
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sankey
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Haplumbrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—33

    0—51

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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

    39

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    707

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    225

    274

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; very gravelly loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01909. few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots
    BA—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; very cobbly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. common very fine and fine roots
    Bw—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; extremely cobbly clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. few very fine and fine roots
    R—43 centimeters (16.9 inches); fragments. hard fractured sandstone