IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vitrandic Haploxerepts
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03-JFD-01
  • User Pedon ID: 03OR037001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0392
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16399
  • 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: 42.9562263
  • Std. Longitude: -121.1808243
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30 S.
  • Range: 13 E.
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: northwest quarter of the southwest quarter
  • Location Description: about 12 miles south and 6 miles west of Silver Lake townsite.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR037—Lake
  • MLRA: 6—Cascade Mountains, Eastern Slope
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR680—Fremont National Forest, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42121-H2—Partin Butte, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dorr, Jim
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy, glassy, frigid, shallow Vitrandic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vitrandic Haploxerepts
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy, glassy, frigid, shallow Vitrandic Haploxerepts
  • PSC - 1 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/10/2003
  • 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
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: undulating
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent andesite at 60cm with 45 to <100
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 250- to 750-millimeter andesite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/10/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    moderately coherent

    very strongly coherent

    36 - 60

    60 -

    - 24 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    1—11

    1—36

    11—36

    36—

    60—

    —10—

    —35—

    —25—

    —-

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    1553

    —

    60

    559

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    756

    Silver Creek

    SNOTEL
    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; low excavation difficulty; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-?-750 millimeter andesite fragments; abrupt broken boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    A—1 to 11 centimeters (0.4 to 4.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; ashy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to strong medium granular structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 9.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-?-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter andesite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02290; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw1—11 to 20 centimeters (4.3 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; cobbly ashy loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; 12.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-?-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter andesite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02291; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw2—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; cobbly ashy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; high excavation difficulty; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 12.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-?-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter andesite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 04N02292; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Crt—36 to 60 centimeters (14.2 to 23.6 inches); bedrock; very hard, extremely firm, moderately coherent; very high excavation difficulty; 6.0 very fine roots around fragments and 3.0 medium roots around fragments; 3.0 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 70 percent prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, and brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry, clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly cemented cemented 250-?-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 28 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly cemented cemented 2-?-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 60 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly cemented cemented 75-?-250 millimeter andesite fragments; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 04N02293; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 271632; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 271632
    R—60 centimeters (23.6 inches); bedrock; rigid, rigid, very strongly coherent; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry