IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nelscott
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988OR015002
  • User Pedon ID: 88OR015002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0044
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60167
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 42.8480568
  • Std. Longitude: -124.5325012
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31S
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: N side of Sixes River-Cape Blanco-Airport Rd 200 feet W of Cranberry bogs in SW 1/4 NW 1/4
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR015—Curry

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Diane Hoppe and Herb Huddleston
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, isomesic, ortstein Aquic Durudands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nelscott
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nelscott
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, isomesic, ortstein Typic Haplor
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: terrace—outwash or marine
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    81—91

    91—178

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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

    1

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    67

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    225

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    1A1—0 to 38 centimeters (0.0 to 15.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00263. many very fine and fine roots
    1A2—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00264. many very fine and fine roots
    1A3—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P00265. common very fine and fine roots
    2E—81 to 91 centimeters (31.9 to 35.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, dry; loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine and medium prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P00266. Very weakly smeary.; few very fine and fine roots; few fine and medium prominent 7.5YR56 mottles
    2Bsm1—91 to 142 centimeters (35.8 to 55.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior, dry; loamy fine sand; massive; very hard, firm, strongly cemented; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00267. Roots are in channels.; few fine roots
    2Bsm2—142 to 160 centimeters (55.9 to 63.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, dry; loamy fine sand; massive; hard, firm, weakly cemented; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00268. Roots are in channels.; few fine roots
    2Bsm3—160 to 178 centimeters (63.0 to 70.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, dry; loamy sand; massive; hard, friable, weakly cemented; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00269
    3C—178 to 190 centimeters (70.1 to 74.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) interior, white (10YR 8/1) interior, dry; silty clay loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments. common fine prominent 10YR56 mottles