IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blancocanyon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03-DMK-01
  • User Pedon ID: 03OR013001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0334
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16473
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 43.9573898
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2657776
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19S
  • Range: 20E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet south and 2100 feet north of NE corner
  • Location Description: Northeast of Logan Butte along Camp Creek road. 4981 ft. Northwest of Camp Creek road and Van Lake road junction, on south side of road, north bank.
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR013—Crook
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR618—Crook County Area, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43120-H3—Logan Butte, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dick Kern
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Sodic Xeric Haplocambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blancocanyon
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blancocanyon
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium-volcanic ash-mixed
  • Landform: valley flat
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: rare ponding for brief periods begining in mar
  • Geology: John Day formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/2/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 35
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    cambic horizon

    natric horizon

    0—23

    0—23

    10—152

    10—152

    —23—

    —23—

    —142—

    —142—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    1255

    —

    305

    —

    85

    10

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; ashy loam; 10 percent clay; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 4.0 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary.; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bkn1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; ashy sandy loam; 10 percent clay; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine low-continuity tubular and pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01920; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bkn2—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; loam; 20 percent clay; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 1.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01921; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bkn3—38 to 91 centimeters (15.0 to 35.8 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2), olive (5Y 5/3), moist; loam; 25 percent clay; very hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary.; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bkn4—91 to 107 centimeters (35.8 to 42.1 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2), olive (5Y 5/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 27 percent clay; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary.; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bkn5—107 to 122 centimeters (42.1 to 48.0 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2), olive (5Y 5/3), moist; loam; 25 percent clay; very hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary.; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bkn6—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), olive (5Y 5/3), moist; silt; 20 percent clay; very hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, thymol-blue.; very dry when described; observed in pit, small