IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): CHENOWETH
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957OR065001
  • User Pedon ID: S1957OR065001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0880
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33939
  • 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: 45.5841675
  • Std. Longitude: -121.1772232
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: Center
  • Location Description: Northern Wasco SCD, Wasco county, Oregon. 420 feet ENE from country road (Three Mile Creek Road). Less than 1 mile from city limits of The Dalles.
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR065—Wasco
  • MLRA: 6—Cascade Mountains, Eastern Slope
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR673—Wasco County, Oregon, Northern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. W. Mayko and Stanley B. McCaleb
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Haploxerolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - CHENOWETH
  • PSC - 43 to 94 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - CHENOWETH
  • Classificaton Date - 4/29/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/29/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - crop trees
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    10

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    219

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    165

    356

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    11.7

    22.8

    0.6

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    AP—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06651; moist when described;
    A12—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; weak medium platy, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06652; moist when described;
    AB—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; fine pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06653; moist when described;. few firm noncalcareous nodules up to 1 inch in diameter but most about 1/2 inch in diameter; patchy - phpvsfiid 190078; patchy - phpvsfiid 190078
    B21—43 to 63 centimeters (16.9 to 24.8 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; fine pores; 1 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06654; moist when described;. some firm noncalcareous nodules up to 1 inch in diameter but most about 1/2 inch in diameter; clay flows nearly continuos on nodules; patchy - phpvsfiid 190079; patchy - phpvsfiid 190079
    B22—63 to 107 centimeters (24.8 to 42.1 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; fine pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06655; moist when described;. many firm noncalcareous nodules that are very dark grayish brown outside and inside, mainly about 1/2 inch in diameter; patchy - phpvsfiid 190080; patchy - phpvsfiid 190080
    B3—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; loam; massive, and weak fine subangular blocky; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; fine pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06656; moist when described;. occasional nodular structure
    C11—127 to 178 centimeters (50.0 to 70.1 inches);, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; fine pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06657; moist when described;
    C12—178 to 208 centimeters (70.1 to 81.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; fine pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06658; dry when described;
    C21—208 to 234 centimeters (81.9 to 92.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; 1 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) fine faint and 1 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine faint mottles; firm; 0.5 roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06659; moist when described;. stratified loamy coarse sand, silt loam, and very fine sandy loam; laminated; this horizon was not sampled; a very thin very firm iron segregation occurred at the top of this horizon
    C22—234 to 305 centimeters (92.1 to 120.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A06660; moist when described;. this horizon was sampled between 92 and 98 inches; bored with auger to 120 inches