IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): HALL RANCH
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1960OR061007
  • User Pedon ID: S1960OR061007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5478
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42723
  • 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: 45.1349983
  • Std. Longitude: -117.6963882
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 41E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4 NW 1/4
  • Location Description: About 1,600 feet east and 1000 feet south of northwest section corner. About 30 feet southeast of Merrygo Round Road.
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR061—Union
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR625—Union County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. Juve, F. Carlisle, R. W. Mayko, and G. Lindsay
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - HALL RANCH
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/1960
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/1960 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

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    1146

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    160

    483

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    7.8

    18.3

    -2.8

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; 13 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A41186
    A12—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; 14 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A41187. less than 5 percent andesitic fragments over 3/4 inch diameter; about 2 percent andesitic fragments over 3 inch diameter
    B1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; 17 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A41188. identification questionable of very few thin clay films; one piece of charcoal one inch in diameter; less than 5 percent andesitic fragments over 3/4 inch diameter
    B2—38 to 79 centimeters (15.0 to 31.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; stony silt loam; 23 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A41189. identification questionable of few thin patchy clay films; several soft spots caused by roots, one about 2 inches in diameter and another 2 by 5 inches; these spots filled with darker soil from horizons above; increasing stoniness with depth, 25 percent andesitic fragments over 3/4 inch diameter in upper part and 50 percent in lower part
    B3&R—79 to 79 centimeters (31.1 to 31.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; very stony loam; 18 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 21.0 very fine pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A41190. about 70 percent andesitic fragments over 3/4 inch diameter; soil material consists of thin layers between andesitic fragments; platy andesite is more easily cut with knife than in S60-Ore-31-6