IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Westbutte
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: mpk-02-103
  • User Pedon ID: 02OR025004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0326
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15301
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 43.5324631
  • Std. Longitude: -119.6662674
  • 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 Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Westbutte
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy-skeletal, glassy, frigid Vitrandic Argixerolls
  • PSC - 25 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/5/2002
  • 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
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • 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: 12/5/2002 (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

    argillic horizon

    0—43

    25—43

    —43—

    —18—
    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

    25

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    —

    —

    —

    330

    356

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    60

    7

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; ashy sandy loam; 14 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; moderately rapid permeability; 7.0 very fine roots and 7.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N01752; observed in pit, small
    A2—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; ashy sandy loam; 16 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately rapid permeability; 7.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01753; observed in pit, small
    Bt—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very gravelly ashy sandy clay loam; 21 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 35 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), dry, clay bridges between sand grains; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 76-164-254 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N01754; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 246853; patchy - phpvsfiid 246853
    Bq—43 centimeters (16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very gravelly ashy sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 76-164-254 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red. Lab sample # 03N01755; observed in pit, small