IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Coquille
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016OR041001
  • User Pedon ID: S2016OR041001
  • User Site Association ID: R01 - NWCA - 2016 Intensification
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0135
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87759
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 44.9164500
  • Std. Longitude: -124.0092800
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7S
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 280 meters north and 65 meters east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: 1500 meters southeast of the mouth of Siletz Bay
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR041—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 4A—Sitka Spruce Belt
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR638—Lincoln County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: STAFF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, isomesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Coquille
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, isomesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/19/2016
  • Classifier - Jason Martin
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium over marine deposits
  • Landscape: bay
  • Landform: tide influenced flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: very frequent flooding for very brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/31/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Jason Martin, David Rand, Dave Johnson, Brandi Baird
  • Hydrology Status: drier than natural
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 15
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    redox concentrations

    aquic conditions

    endosaturation

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    cambic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    reduced matrix

    2—13

    2—130

    2—130

    2—130

    13—26

    26—

    31—75

    31—75

    75—130

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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

    0

    —

    —

    -11

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—2 to 13 centimeters (0.8 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 20 percent sand; 12 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 medium and 2.0 fine pores; 30 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N00813; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—13 to 26 centimeters (5.1 to 10.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) sand; 95 percent sand; 2 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 5 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 21-45-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N00814; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Ab—26 to 31 centimeters (10.2 to 12.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) mucky sandy loam; 80 percent sand; 8 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 21-45-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH indicator solutions; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 17N00815; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bw1—31 to 45 centimeters (12.2 to 17.7 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; 15 percent sand; 22 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 6 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N00816; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bw2—45 to 75 centimeters (17.7 to 29.5 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) very fine sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 15 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 8 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark greenish gray (5G 3/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 10 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N00817; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Cg—75 to 130 centimeters (29.5 to 51.2 inches); dark greenish gray (5GY 3/1) loam; 45 percent sand; 15 percent clay; massive; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 2 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 17N00818; wet when described; observed in pit, small. Lenses of sand give platy structure.