IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Yellowstone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001OR053007
  • User Pedon ID: S2001OR053007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2001OR053007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0172
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14572
  • 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: 44.9108315
  • Std. Longitude: -123.5866699
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8S
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 660 feet south and 1980 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 70D—Valsetz stony loam, 3 to 30 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: Kelley Paup-Lefferts
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, ferrihydritic Lithic Haplocryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Yellowstone
  • PSC - 3 to 37 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/15/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Yellowstone
  • Classificaton Date - 8/30/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from basalt and/or residuum weathered from basalt
  • Landscape: mountain range
  • Landform: mountain
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent basalt at 37cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/30/2001 (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

    ABAM

    ABPR

    GASH

    POMU

    PSME

    RHODO

    RUSP

    TSHE

    VAPA

    Abies amabilis

    Abies procera

    Gaultheria shallon

    Polystichum munitum

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Rhododendron

    Rubus spectabilis

    Tsuga heterophylla

    Vaccinium parvifolium

    Pacific silver fir

    noble fir

    salal

    western swordfern

    Douglas-fir

    rhododendron

    salmonberry

    western 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

    37 - 47

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

    andic soil properties

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    3—37

    3—20

    20—37

    37—47

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    —17—

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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

    16

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    887

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    120

    3048

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    90

    6.1

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in cut
    A—3 to 20 centimeters (1.2 to 7.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dry; very gravelly medial loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 medium tubular 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 # 02N00641; observed in cut
    Bw—20 to 37 centimeters (7.9 to 14.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; very gravelly medial sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N00642; observed in cut
    R—37 to 47 centimeters (14.6 to 18.5 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in cut