IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brace
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: fff-02-002
  • User Pedon ID: 02OR025005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2015OR025010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0327
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15302
  • User Project ID: SSR012015001
  • Project Name: Soil Microbe Map Study
  • 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: 43.4102821
  • Std. Longitude: -119.6311646
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 272—Raz-Brace complex, 2 to 20 percent slopes, harney area, mlra 23
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR025—Harney
  • MLRA: 23—Malheur High Plateau
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-KLF—Klamath Falls, Oregon
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR628—Harney County Area, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43119-D6—Squaw Butte, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Foster Fell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid, shallow Xeric Argidurids
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brace
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid, shallow Xeric Argidurids
  • PSC - 8 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/5/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Class - biological crust
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum
  • Landscape: lava plateau
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    duripan

    indurated

    41 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    duripan

    0—8

    8—41

    41—

    —8—

    —33—

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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

    4

    —

    —

    1355

    —

    279

    —

    60

    7

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; gravelly loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-164-254 millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N01756; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); gravelly loam; 24 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-164-254 millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N01757; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 246854; patchy - phpvsfiid 246854
    Bt2—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); cobbly clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 3.0 very fine roots top of horizon; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-164-254 millimeter basalt fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N01758; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 246855; patchy - phpvsfiid 246855
    Bkqm—41 centimeters (16.1 inches); silica present; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small