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Soil Survey of Crater Lake National Park, Oregon 

General Soil Map Units

 

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Soils That Are on Uplands and Formed in Airfall-Deposited Ash and Pumice

 

Number of map units: 3

Percentage of park: 29 percent

 

3. Timbercrater-Castlecrest-Llaorock (Shasta red fir)

 

Percentage of park: 5 percent

Location in park: Southeastern flank of Mount Mazama and nearby hills and cinder cones

Depth class: Very deep

Position on landscape: Ridges, mountain flanks, and mountainsides

Slope range: 2 to 80 percent

Elevation: 5,000 to 6,500 feet

Average annual precipitation: 40 to 60 inches

Average annual air temperature: 38 to 42 degrees F

Frost-free period: 0 to 50 days

Minor components: 5 percent Rock outcrop

Present vegetation: Shasta red fir and lodgepole pine

 

Timbercrater soils

 

Drainage class: Excessively drained

Permeability: Very rapid

Parent material: Airfall deposits of pumice and ash

Surface texture: Paragravelly ashy loamy sand

Subsoil texture: Very paragravelly ashy sand

Substratum texture: Extremely paragravelly ashy loamy sand

 

Castlecrest soils

 

Drainage class: Somewhat excessively drained

Permeability: Rapid

Parent material: Airfall deposits of pumice and ash

Surface texture: Paragravelly ashy loamy sand

Subsoil texture: Paragravelly ashy loamy sand

Substratum texture: Ashy coarse sand

 

Llaorock soils

 

Drainage class: Somewhat excessively drained

Permeability: Rapid

Parent material: Residuum and colluvium derived from andesite mixed with ash

Surface texture: Gravelly ashy sandy loam

Subsoil texture: Extremely stony medial sandy loam

 

 

 

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