IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Olyic
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10-EPA-021
  • User Pedon ID: S10OR071021
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 10-EPA-021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 45.2824707
  • Std. Longitude: -123.3513870
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 30
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR071—Yamhill
  • MLRA: 1—Northern Pacific Coast Range, Foothills, and Valleys
  • Regional Office: 1—Portland, OR
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-SAL—Salem, Oregon
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR071—Yamhill County, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45123-C3—Fairdale, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. S. Kern
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial over loamy, ferrihydritic over isotic, mesic Alic Hapludands
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Olyic
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial over loamy, ferrihydritic over isotic, mesic Alic Hapludands
  • PSC - 2 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/14/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/14/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - rain
  • Current Air Temp - 47
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    GASH

    MANE2

    POMU

    PSME

    Gaultheria shallon

    Mahonia nervosa

    Polystichum munitum

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    salal

    Cascade barberry

    western swordfern

    Douglas-fir

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

    andic soil properties

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    2—82

    2—31

    31—82

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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

    12

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    445

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    340

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches);, 7.5YR (7.5YR/),, dry; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ac—2 to 18 centimeters (0.8 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), light brown (7.5YR 6/3), dry; medial loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 5.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots and 5.0 coarse roots; 11 percent medium iron-manganese nodules; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—18 to 31 centimeters (7.1 to 12.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), light brown (7.5YR 6/3), dry; medial loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 4 percent medium iron-manganese nodules; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—31 to 58 centimeters (12.2 to 22.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; medial silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 medium roots; 1 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter diabase fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—58 to 82 centimeters (22.8 to 32.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; medial silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Horizon slightly frozen
    BC—82 to 102 centimeters (32.3 to 40.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; cobbly fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots; 8 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter diabase fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter diabase fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—102 to 132 centimeters (40.2 to 52.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; cobbly fine sandy loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 medium roots; 10 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter diabase fragments and 12 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter diabase fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—132 centimeters (52.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; cobbly fine sandy loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter diabase fragments and 12 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter diabase fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small