IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): CHERRYHILL
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957OR065004
  • User Pedon ID: S1957OR065004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1957OR065004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0877
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33936
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 45.6016655
  • Std. Longitude: -121.2399979
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: Northern Wasco SCD, NE of SE of NW
  • Location Description: 85 feet southeast of edge of county gravel road. About 2 miles west of city limits of The Dalles
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR065—Wasco
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR673—Wasco County, Oregon, Northern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. W. Mayko and S. B. McCaleb
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - CHERRYHILL
  • PSC - 8 to 26 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - CHERRYHILL
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1957 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUBE5

    Quercus berberidifolia

    scrub oak

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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

    5

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    351

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    315

    356

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    11.7

    22.8

    0.6

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    AP1—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06628. surface crust over very weak thin platy structure which breaks to weak fine granules; many coarse vesicles
    AP2—4 to 11 centimeters (1.6 to 4.3 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; weak thin platy, and weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06629
    B11—11 to 20 centimeters (4.3 to 7.9 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 21.0 fine tubular pores; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06630
    B12—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; sandy clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 21.0 pores; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06631. some clay flows in pores
    B21—46 to 53 centimeters (18.1 to 20.9 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 roots; 3.0 fine pores; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06632. patchy - phpvsfiid 197917; patchy - phpvsfiid 197917
    B22—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay; weak medium and coarse prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 roots; 3.0 fine pores; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06633. patchy - phpvsfiid 190077; patchy - phpvsfiid 190077
    CR—66 to 66 centimeters (26.0 to 26.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A06634. tuffaceous sandstone with thick clay flows in crevices and cracks