IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Malabon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10OR047003
  • User Pedon ID: S10OR047003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N1293
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47521
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 45.2107778
  • Std. Longitude: -123.0208056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: Middle
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR047—Marion
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR643—Marion County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David R. Johnson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Ultic Argixerolls
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.0
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Malabon
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Ultic Argixerolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/9/2010
  • Classifier - DRJ
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium over clayey alluvium over silty alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: low
  • Ksat Class Upper: moderately high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/5/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - crop vines
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 17
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—80

    48—152

    —80—

    —104—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    33

    —

    1107

    —

    —

    12.1

    19.8

    5.1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    OR7127

    REX 1 S

    WETS
    Adp—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 6 percent sand; 69 percent silt; 25 percent clay; structureless massive; extremely hard, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    BAt—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 6 percent sand; 67 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots; 1 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—48 to 80 centimeters (18.9 to 31.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 61 percent silt; 34 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—80 to 152 centimeters (31.5 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 25 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 25 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BCt—152 to 180 centimeters (59.8 to 70.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 5 percent sand; 68 percent silt; 27 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 25 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small