IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Santiam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 00-DRJ-43
  • User Pedon ID: S2000OR053003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0515
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13349
  • 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: 44.8211937
  • Std. Longitude: -123.2345276
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9S
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 1300 feet south and 500 feet east of the NW 1/4
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR053—Polk
  • MLRA: 2—Willamette and Puget Sound Valleys
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44123-G2—Monmouth, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David R. Johnson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquultic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Santiam
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/2002
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Santiam
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty glaciolacustrine deposits over clayey residuum weathered from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Spencer formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/17/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—41

    41—152

    41—152

    —41—

    —111—

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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

    8

    —

    —

    82

    —

    90

    1143

    —

    190

    11

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    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 12.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N02917; observed in trench
    A—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 1.0 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N02918; observed in trench
    Bt1—41 to 71 centimeters (16.1 to 28.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 20.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; 5 percent medium distinct irregular brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct irregular grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02919; observed in trench
    Bt2—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silty clay; 40 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 50 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 50 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium spherical very weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 20 percent distinct irregular brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 25 percent distinct irregular grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02920; observed in trench
    2Bt3—97 to 114 centimeters (38.2 to 44.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 medium tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 65 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 90 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; 1 percent medium spherical very weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 5 percent distinct irregular grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 5 percent distinct irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02921; observed in trench
    2Bt4—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) broken face, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face, moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 medium tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 60 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 85 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium spherical very weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 5 percent distinct irregular grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 40 percent distinct irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # 01N02922; observed in trench