IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): WOLFBUTTE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03-SMM-19
  • User Pedon ID: 03OR035004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 03-SMM-19
  • User Site Association ID: OR683 point data
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0093
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15498
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 42.4422150
  • Std. Longitude: -121.5061951
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36 S
  • Range: 10 E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: about 37 feet east and 265 feet south of the northwest corner section
  • Location Description: About 1.5 miles south of the town of Sprague River, Oregon
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR035—Klamath
  • MLRA: 21—Klamath and Shasta Valleys and Basins
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR681—Klamath County, Oregon, Northern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42121-D5—Sprague River West, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sue Malone
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, isotic, frigid Vitrandic Durixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - WOLFBUTTE
  • PSC - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Barkley
  • Classificaton Date - 6/26/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash and/or loess over alluvium derived from volcanic and sedimentary rock and/or colluvium derived from volcanic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: marginal valley
  • Landform: fan remnant
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/26/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: PIPO/PUTR2/ACOCO
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 20
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIPO

    JUOC

    CELE3

    PUTR2

    ACLEL

    FEID

    ELELE

    WYMO

    BACA3

    BRTE

    CARO5

    CLPE

    PENST

    RICE

    Pinus ponderosa

    Juniperus occidentalis

    Cercocarpus ledifolius

    Purshia tridentata

    Achnatherum lemmonii var. lemmonii

    Festuca idahoensis

    Elymus elymoides ssp. elymoides

    Wyethia mollis

    Balsamorhiza careyana

    Bromus tectorum

    Carex rossii

    Claytonia perfoliata

    Penstemon

    Ribes cereum

    ponderosa pine

    western juniper

    curl-leaf mountain mahogany

    antelope bitterbrush

    Lemmon's needlegrass

    Idaho fescue

    squirreltail

    woolly mule-ears

    Carey's balsamroot

    cheatgrass

    Ross' sedge

    miner's lettuce

    beardtongue

    wax currant

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    duripan

    very strongly coherent

    98 - 163

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    duripan

    5—48

    48—82

    98—163

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    —34—

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    6/26/2003

    50

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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

    3

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    1355

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    80

    406

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    30

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; low excavation difficulty; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Oe—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; low excavation difficulty; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    A—5 to 16 centimeters (2.0 to 6.3 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed, moist; ashy loam; 40 percent sand; 12 percent clay; weak fine platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 20.0 very fine roots and 5.0 fine roots; 20.0 very fine irregular and 10.0 fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter andesite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00427; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    AB—16 to 48 centimeters (6.3 to 18.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed, moist; ashy loam; 40 percent sand; 15 percent clay; moderate very coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 5.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 20.0 very fine irregular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume subrounded indurated 20-?-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 3 percent by volume subrounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter andesite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00428; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Bt1—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed, moist; clay loam; 35 percent sand; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 5.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds and 25 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume subrounded indurated 20-?-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter andesite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00429; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Bt2—64 to 82 centimeters (25.2 to 32.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) rubbed, moist; very gravelly loam; 50 percent sand; 30 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, noncoherent, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds and 20 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume subrounded indurated 20-?-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 12 percent by volume subrounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter andesite fragments and 13 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter andesite fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Bq—82 to 98 centimeters (32.3 to 38.6 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed, moist; cemented very gravelly sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 10 percent clay; moderate very thick platy parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately coherent by silica, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; high excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots between peds and 1.0 fine roots between peds; 5.0 very fine irregular pores; 60 percent distinct silica coats on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses; 10 percent by volume subrounded indurated 20-?-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 12 percent by volume subrounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter andesite fragments and 13 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter andesite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Bqm—98 to 163 centimeters (38.6 to 64.2 inches); 50 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) rubbed, moist; cemented material; massive; rigid, rigid, very strongly coherent by silica; very high excavation difficulty; 70 percent prominent silica coats on rock fragments; 10 percent fine very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses; 10 percent by volume subrounded indurated 20-?-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 12 percent by volume subrounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter andesite fragments and 13 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter andesite fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry