IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Westbutte
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: mpk-02-102
  • User Pedon ID: 02OR025003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0325
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15300
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 43.5358620
  • Std. Longitude: -119.7674179
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 362—Westbutte-Lambring-Rock outcrop complex, 35 to 65 percent north slopes
  • State: Oregon
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR628—Harney County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mark Keller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy-skeletal, glassy, frigid Vitrandic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Westbutte
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy-skeletal, glassy, frigid Vitrandic Haploxerolls
  • PSC - 25 to cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/3/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Class - biological crust
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: escarpment
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/3/2002 (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

    0—32

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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

    60

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    —

    —

    —

    0

    356

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    60

    7

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    A1—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very bouldery ashy loam; 16 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; moderate permeability; 10.0 very fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 254-432-610 millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-164-254 millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 610-?-? millimeter basalt fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N01749; observed in pit, small
    A2—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very bouldery ashy loam; 16 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderate permeability; 10.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 610-?-? millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-164-254 millimeter basalt fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 254-432-610 millimeter basalt fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N01750; observed in pit, small
    A3—48 centimeters (18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very bouldery ashy loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderate permeability; 10.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 610-?-? millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-164-254 millimeter basalt fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 254-432-610 millimeter basalt fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red. Lab sample # 03N01751; observed in pit, small