IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Valsetz
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001OR053004
  • User Pedon ID: S2001OR053004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2001OR053004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0169
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14569
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 44.8879166
  • Std. Longitude: -123.6084747
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8S
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 1650 feet north and 1980 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: 70F—Valsetz stony loam, 50 to 75 percent slopes
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR053—Polk
  • MLRA: 1—Northern Pacific Coast Range, Foothills, and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR053—Polk County, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44123-H5—Laurel Mountain, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Matthew H. Fillmore/Kelley Paup-Lefferts
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, ferrihydritic Typic Haplocryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Valsetz
  • PSC - 3 to 97 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/15/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Valsetz
  • Classificaton Date - 8/21/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from basalt and/or residuum weathered from basalt
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent basalt at 97cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/21/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABPR

    ACTR

    GASH

    MANE2

    POMU

    PSME

    RHODO

    RUSP

    TSUGA

    VAPA

    Abies procera

    Achlys triphylla

    Gaultheria shallon

    Mahonia nervosa

    Polystichum munitum

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Rhododendron

    Rubus spectabilis

    Tsuga

    Vaccinium parvifolium

    noble fir

    sweet after death

    salal

    Cascade barberry

    western swordfern

    Douglas-fir

    rhododendron

    salmonberry

    hemlock

    red huckleberry

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    97 - 107

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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

    lithic contact

    3—55

    3—23

    23—79

    97—107

    —52—

    —20—

    —56—

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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

    32

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    954

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    134

    3048

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    90

    6.1

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    Oi—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in cut
    A1—3 to 12 centimeters (1.2 to 4.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry; gravelly medial loam; 19 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately smeary; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 very fine irregular and 10.0 fine irregular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 250-?-600 millimeter basalt fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00626; observed in cut
    A2—12 to 23 centimeters (4.7 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; very gravelly medial loam; 21 percent clay; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately smeary; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 very fine irregular and 10.0 fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N00627; observed in cut
    Bw1—23 to 55 centimeters (9.1 to 21.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; very gravelly medial loam; 21 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately smeary; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 4.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N00628; observed in cut
    Bw2—55 to 79 centimeters (21.7 to 31.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry; extremely gravelly medial loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately smeary; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 4.0 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 25 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N00629; observed in cut
    C—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; extremely cobbly sandy loam; 16 percent clay; single grain; nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 4.0 coarse roots throughout; 30 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 45 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N00630; observed in cut
    R—97 to 107 centimeters (38.2 to 42.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in cut