IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Windygap
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991OR047003
  • User Pedon ID: 91OR047003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0749
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63788
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025
  • 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: 44.9138870
  • Std. Longitude: -122.7541656
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7S
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 35
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR047—Marion
  • MLRA: 2—Willamette and Puget Sound Valleys
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Langridge, Engel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Xeric Haplohumults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Windygap
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Windygap
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed, mesic Xeric Haplohumult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—41

    41—135

    135—175

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    3

    256

    315

    124

    11

    18

    6

    12

    19

    7

    7823

    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) crushed silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments. Lab sample # 91P04233. satellite samples; sample site in field perimeter used as a field driveway; surface horizons also sampled in field; many very fine and fine roots throughout
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) crushed silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 5.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular and 2.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04227. many very fine and fine roots throughout; many medium and coarse roots throughout
    Ap2—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) crushed silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 91P04234. satellite samples; sample site in field perimeter used as a field driveway; surface horizons also sampled in field; many very fine and fine roots throughout
    AB—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) crushed silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 5.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04228. some question on evidence of clay films; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; many very fine and fine roots throughout; many medium and coarse roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226957; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226957
    Bt1—41 to 71 centimeters (16.1 to 28.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) crushed silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular and 5.5 medium tubular pores; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent extremely coarse irregular masses of dark accumulation; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04229. large krotovina of (7.5YR 3/2) soil material; few extremely coarse soft dark masses concentrations; few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; many fine and medium roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226958; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226958
    Bt2—71 to 109 centimeters (28.0 to 42.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) crushed silty clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04230. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common fine and medium roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 226959; continuous - phpvsfiid 226959
    Bt3—109 to 135 centimeters (42.9 to 53.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) crushed silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04231. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common fine and medium roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 226960; continuous - phpvsfiid 226960
    Cr—135 to 175 centimeters (53.1 to 68.9 inches); 25 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior and 75 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) exterior clay loam; massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine to coarse roots in cracks; 37 percent prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on rock fragments; fragments. Lab sample # 91P04232. clay films between vertical fractures of paralitic bedrock; roots in cracks at spacings of 5-10"; some large worm holes; water perched on top of horizon; common clay films surface features on rock fragments; few fine to coarse roots in cracks; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226961; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226961