IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amity
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992OR053003
  • User Pedon ID: S1992OR053003
  • User Site Association ID: 8819
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - A3
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0762
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65001
  • 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: 44.7422218
  • Std. Longitude: -123.2122192
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9S
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 32
  • Location Description: About 13 miles N of Corvallis, 1/2 mile E of US99W on Albany, OR 15 minute Quad
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR053—Polk
  • MLRA: 2—Willamette and Puget Sound Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR053—Polk County, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Will Austin, J. Herbert Huddleston, and Gerald Latshaw.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Endoaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Amity
  • PSC - 57 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Amity-Like
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aeric Ochraqualf
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 7/30/1992
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: fluvial terrace
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/30/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—24

    57—103

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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

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    63

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    1016

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    Ap1—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; moderate medium granular parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 medium tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P04639
    Ap2—9 to 24 centimeters (3.5 to 9.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 medium tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P04640
    AE—24 to 37 centimeters (9.4 to 14.6 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 medium tubular pores; 3 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P04641
    E—37 to 57 centimeters (14.6 to 22.4 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (10YR 7/1), dry; silt loam; 21 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 21.0 fine tubular pores; 3 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P04642
    2Bt1—57 to 76 centimeters (22.4 to 29.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; silty clay loam; 21 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 21.0 fine tubular pores; 75 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium spherical iron-manganese concretions and 3 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P04643. patchy - phpvsfiid 192724; patchy - phpvsfiid 192724
    2Bt2—76 to 103 centimeters (29.9 to 40.6 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; silty clay loam; 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 21.0 fine tubular pores; distinct clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P04644. patchy - phpvsfiid 192725; patchy - phpvsfiid 192725
    3BCt1—103 to 128 centimeters (40.6 to 50.4 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silt loam; 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; distinct clay films on faces of peds and distinct clay films in root channels and/or pores; 3 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P04645. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192727; patchy - phpvsfiid 192726; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 192727; patchy - phpvsfiid 192726
    3BCt2—128 to 185 centimeters (50.4 to 72.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silt loam; 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium faint mottles; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine tubular pores; distinct clay films in root channels and/or pores; 3 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 92P04646. continuous - phpvsfiid 192728; continuous - phpvsfiid 192728