IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sixes
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990OR015003
  • User Pedon ID: 90OR015003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0329
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63376
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024
  • 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: 42.2830544
  • Std. Longitude: -124.3663864
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 38S
  • Range: 14W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 1100 feet N and 2600 feet W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: Pistol River—hills above the Crockett Ranch
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR015—Curry
  • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sixes
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Andic Humitropepts
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—33

    33—86

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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

    20

    287

    225

    226

    A—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01965. 5% gravel, 5% concretions (2 to 5 mm); many very fine and fine roots
    Bw1—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderately smeary; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01966. 5% gravel, 10% concretions (2 to 5 mm); many very fine and fine roots
    Bw2—58 to 86 centimeters (22.8 to 33.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01967. 5% gravel, 10% concretions (2 to 5 mm)_; common very fine and fine roots
    BC—86 to 127 centimeters (33.9 to 50.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; cobbly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01968. 5% gravel; few very fine and fine roots
    C—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), dry; silty clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog. 5% gravel