IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Silverton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08-DRJ-01
  • User Pedon ID: S2008OR047001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0797
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24477
  • 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: 44.9956398
  • Std. Longitude: -122.7973633
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7 S.
  • Range: 1 W.
  • Section: 3
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR047—Marion
  • MLRA: 2—Willamette and Puget Sound Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Johnson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Ultic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Silverton
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Silverton
  • Classificaton Date - 10/6/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: fan
  • 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: 10/6/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 13
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    46—152

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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

    6

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    86.3

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; 12 percent sand; 61 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate medium granular, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard; 10.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-25 millimeter basalt fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N02670; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard; 5.0 very fine roots and 0.2 fine roots; 1 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-25 millimeter basalt fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N02671; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; silty clay; 7 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 40 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard; 3.0 very fine roots; 1 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-25 millimeter basalt fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N02672; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt—71 to 107 centimeters (28.0 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay; 20 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 40 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm; 2.0 very fine roots; 50 percent black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subrounded indurated 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 20 percent by volume subrounded noncoherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N02673; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2BCt—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay; 20 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 40 percent clay; massive; moderately hard, firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 5 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry, and gray (10YR 5/1), moist, sand coats and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry, clay films on rock fragments and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry, clay films on surfaces along pores and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium spherical iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded indurated 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 50 percent by volume subrounded noncoherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments. Lab sample # 09N02674; moist when described; observed in pit, small