IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oatman
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 02-JFD-07
  • User Pedon ID: 02OR035008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0251
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14998
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 42.4073334
  • Std. Longitude: -122.2688980
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36 S.
  • Range: 5 E.
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: about 1900 feet north and 200 feet east of southwest corner
  • Location Description: Billie Creek Snotel Site, about 26 miles west and 12 miles north of Klamath Falls, about 50 feet northwest of FS Road #3650, about 60 feet northwest of Cascade Canal
  • Map Unit: 1256—Kyotesue gravelly medial sandy loam, 4 to 20 percent slopes
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR035—Klamath
  • MLRA: 3—Olympic and Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR683—Winema National Forest Area, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42122-D3—Mount McLoughlin, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dorr, Jim
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, amorphic Xeric Haplocryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oatman
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal, amorphic Xeric Haplocryands
  • PSC - 2 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/29/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from volcanic rock and/or tephra
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/29/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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

    moderately coherent

    105 -

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

    andic soil properties

    umbric epipedon

    duripan

    2—105

    2—70

    105—

    —102—

    —68—

    —-
    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

    5

    —

    —

    1597

    —

    200

    1370

    —

    30

    5.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    344

    Billie Creek Divide

    SNOTEL
    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; low excavation difficulty; fragments; abrupt broken boundary.; dry when described; observed in trench
    A—2 to 32 centimeters (0.8 to 12.6 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, dry; stony medial loam; 60 percent sand; 3 percent clay; weak coarse granular parts to moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 12.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.2 very coarse roots throughout and 6.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.3 coarse roots throughout; 15.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-100-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 251-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 76-100-250 millimeter durinodes fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 251-425-600 millimeter durinodes fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-5-10 millimeter durinodes fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter durinodes fragments and 4 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-10-75 millimeter andesite fragments; 0.64 grams/cc of field bulk density; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N01260, 03N01261, 03N01262; dry when described; observed in trench
    AB—32 to 70 centimeters (12.6 to 27.6 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, dry; very stony medial loam; 55 percent sand; 2 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 12.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 very coarse roots throughout and 0.3 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.1 coarse roots throughout; 9.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter durinodes fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-10-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 76-100-250 millimeter durinodes fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-100-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 251-425-600 millimeter durinodes fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 251-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-5-10 millimeter durinodes fragments; 0.65 grams/cc of field bulk density; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01263; dry when described; observed in trench
    Bw—70 to 105 centimeters (27.6 to 41.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, dry; extremely gravelly medial fine sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 2 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; high excavation difficulty; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; 9.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-5-10 millimeter durinodes fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 76-100-250 millimeter durinodes fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-100-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 22 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter durinodes fragments and 23 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-10-75 millimeter andesite fragments; 1.1 grams/cc of field bulk density; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 03N01264; dry when described; observed in trench
    Bq—105 to 200 centimeters (41.3 to 78.7 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/2) broken face, dry; extremely gravelly ashy loamy sand; 83 percent sand; 1 percent clay; structureless massive; very hard, extremely firm, moderately coherent by silica, nonsticky, nonplastic; very high excavation difficulty; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; 12.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 4 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 76-100-250 millimeter durinodes fragments and 6 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-100-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-5-10 millimeter durinodes fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter durinodes fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-10-75 millimeter andesite fragments; 1.16 grams/cc of field bulk density; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue.; moist when described; observed in trench. Depth to duripan varies from 80 to 160 cm. 160 cm is in vertical fractures, 80 cm is near top of hightes moundsl. Boundary has irregular topography with 50 to 100 cm between vertical fractures.