IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): BLY
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03-SMM-09
  • User Pedon ID: 03OR681009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 03-SMM-09
  • User Site Association ID: OR683 point data
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0095
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15500
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 42.4026527
  • Std. Longitude: -121.2519531
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36 S
  • Range: 12 E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: about 50 feet west and 1610 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: About 5 miles south of Beatty, adjacent to the Fremont National Forest
  • Map Unit: 4214—Fuego-Bly complex, 6 to 20 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • 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-D3—Beatty, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sue Malone
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, isotic, frigid Vitrandic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - BLY (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 71 to 121 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/19/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bly
  • Classificaton Date - 5/16/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or eolian deposits, including coarse pumiceous volcanic ash, over alluvium and/or colluvium derived from volcanic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F006XY708OR Frigid Xeric Foothills 12-20 PZ Apr 29 2013 Gebauer, Chris
  • Other Vegetative Class: CPS211 - Pinus ponderosa/Purshia tridentata/Festuca idahoensis—Forested Plant Associations of the Oregon East Cascades; CPS211 - Pinus ponderosa/Purshia tridentata/Festuca idahoensis-pumice—Plant Assoc. of Central Oregon Pumice Zone (R6 E 104-85)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/16/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 10
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIPO

    JUOC

    FEID

    ARTR2

    CELE3

    ELELE

    SYAL

    RIVE

    RICE

    Pinus ponderosa

    Juniperus occidentalis

    Festuca idahoensis

    Artemisia tridentata

    Cercocarpus ledifolius

    Elymus elymoides ssp. elymoides

    Symphoricarpos albus

    Ribes velutinum

    Ribes cereum

    ponderosa pine

    western juniper

    Idaho fescue

    big sagebrush

    curl-leaf mountain mahogany

    squirreltail

    common snowberry

    desert gooseberry

    wax currant

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

    duripan

    weakly coherent

    150 - 183

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    durinodes

    duripan

    5—71

    71—150

    130—150

    150—183

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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

    18

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    1233

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    40

    457

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    30

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; 35 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 15 percent clay; low excavation difficulty; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Oe—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; 35 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 15 percent clay; low excavation difficulty; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    A1—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) rubbed, moist; ashy loam; 40 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 20.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 20.0 very fine irregular and 10.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    A2—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed, moist; ashy loam; 40 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 20.0 very fine irregular and 10.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    AB—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed, moist; ashy loam; 40 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 20.0 very fine irregular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt—71 to 101 centimeters (28.0 to 39.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed, moist; ashy loam; 45 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 20.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Btq1—101 to 130 centimeters (39.8 to 51.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed, moist; sandy clay loam; 50 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 20.0 very fine irregular and 5.0 fine irregular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter durinodes fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Btq2—130 to 150 centimeters (51.2 to 59.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed, moist; sandy clay loam; 60 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; 8.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 10 percent faint silica coats on vertical faces of peds and 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter durinodes fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Bqm—150 to 201 centimeters (59.1 to 79.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed, moist; cemented sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak very thick platy structure; extremely hard, very firm, weakly cemented by silica, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; 12.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 fine irregular pores; 10 percent faint silica coats on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter durinodes fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry