IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Neskowin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975OR039010
  • User Pedon ID: S1975OR039010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1975OR039010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 75C0075
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44987
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 44.1975746
  • Std. Longitude: -124.1109238
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16S
  • Range: 12W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: A freshly dug pit on a grassy headland just north of Big Creek in the NW, NW, SE
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR039—Lane
  • MLRA: 1—Northern Pacific Coast Range, Foothills, and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR637—Lane County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. O. Ness, G. H. Simonson, and W. R. Patching
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial, isomesic Alic Fulvudands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Neskowin
  • PSC - 25 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - NESKOWIN
  • Classificaton Date - 7/30/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/30/1975 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PISI

    PLANT

    Picea sitchensis

    Plantago

    Sitka spruce

    plantain

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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

    15

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    76

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    1905

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    10

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 75C00402; moist when described;. about 10 percent pebbles; pores irregular
    A3—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silt loam; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 75C00403; moist when described;. about 15 percent pebbles and occasional cobbles
    B21—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) crushed, dry; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 75C00404; moist when described;. 15 percent pebbles and occasional cobbles
    B22—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 75C00405; moist when described;. 10 percent pebbles