Dayton soil series
The Dayton series consists of very deep, poorly drained soils that formed in silty and clayey glaciolacustrine deposits. Dayton soils are on terraces. Slopes are 0 to 2 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 42 inches and the mean annual temperature is about 52 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Albaqualfs
The soils are usually moist and are saturated with water during the winter and spring. The mean annual soil temperature is 52 to 55 degrees F. The soils are more than 60 inches deep. Depth to aquic conditions with chroma of 2 or less, with or without redox concentrations, is from the surface to 10 inches. Depth to the 2Bt and abrupt textural change ranges from 12 to 24 inches. The pscs has 40 to 50 percent clay.
USE AND VEGETATION: These soils are used for growing spring grains, grass seed, hay and pasture. Native vegetation is grasses, weeds, rosebushes and widely spaced ash trees.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Dayton soils are found throughout the Willamette Valley in western Oregon; MLRA 2. They are extensive. Classification revised 3/00 from Typic Albaqualfs to Vertic Albaqualfs based on addition of Vertic subgroup to Soil Taxonomy.
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/D/DAYTON.html
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Dayton soil series
The Dayton series consists of very deep, poorly drained soils that formed in silty and clayey glaciolacustrine deposits. Dayton soils are on terraces. Slopes are 0 to 2 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 42 inches and the mean annual temperature is about 52 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Albaqualfs
The soils are usually moist and are saturated with water during the winter and spring. The mean annual soil temperature is 52 to 55 degrees F. The soils are more than 60 inches deep. Depth to aquic conditions with chroma of 2 or less, with or without redox concentrations, is from the surface to 10 inches. Depth to the 2Bt and abrupt textural change ranges from 12 to 24 inches. The pscs has 40 to 50 percent clay.
USE AND VEGETATION: These soils are used for growing spring grains, grass seed, hay and pasture. Native vegetation is grasses, weeds, rosebushes and widely spaced ash trees.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Dayton soils are found throughout the Willamette Valley in western Oregon; MLRA 2. They are extensive. Classification revised 3/00 from Typic Albaqualfs to Vertic Albaqualfs based on addition of Vertic subgroup to Soil Taxonomy.
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/D/DAYTON.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit: