IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Klamath
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03-SMM-021
  • User Pedon ID: 03OR681021
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 03-SMM-021
  • User Site Association ID: OR683 point data
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0094
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15499
  • 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: 42.4622459
  • Std. Longitude: -121.3964386
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36 S
  • Range: 11 E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: about 2100 feet north and 1800 feet west of the southeast corner section
  • Location Description: About .2 miles northeast of Council Butte, north of the Sprague River
  • Map Unit: 4300—Ontko-Klamath-Chiloquinot complex, 0 to 3 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-D4—Sprague River East, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sue Malone
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive Cumulic Cryaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Klamath
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Klamath
  • Classificaton Date - 6/26/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium and/or clayey alluvium derived from volcanic and sedimentary rock and/or diatomaceous earth over with minor amounts of volcanic ash and/or pumice derived from dacite
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for very long periods
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for long periods
  • 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
    R006XB015OR Marshy Swale 14-26 PZ

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/26/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: WET MEADOW
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 27
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    JUBA

    CARO6

    DECA18

    EQAR

    PHAR3

    IRMI

    EPILO

    GETR

    POGR9

    Juncus balticus

    Carex rostrata

    Deschampsia caespitosa

    Equisetum arvense

    Phalaris arundinacea

    Iris missouriensis

    Epilobium

    Geum triflorum

    Potentilla gracilis

    Baltic rush

    beaked sedge

    tufted hairgrass

    field horsetail

    reed canarygrass

    Rocky Mountain iris

    willowherb

    old man's whiskers

    slender cinquefoil

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

    aquic conditions

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—163

    0—79

    61—102

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    —79—

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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

    1

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    1285

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    90

    406

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    30

    6.7

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    7.2

    12.2

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    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) rubbed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; ashy silty clay loam; 13 percent sand; 54 percent silt; 33 percent clay; weak medium granular, and weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 20.0 very fine roots and 12.0 fine roots; 20.0 very fine irregular and 15.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent very fine prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    A2—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) rubbed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; ashy silty clay loam; 16 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 12.0 very fine roots and 5.0 fine roots; 12.0 very fine irregular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent very fine prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    AB—41 to 79 centimeters (16.1 to 31.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) rubbed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, dry; clay loam; 22 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 31 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 5.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; 5.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent very fine prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bg—79 to 99 centimeters (31.1 to 39.0 inches); bluish gray (5B 5/1) reduced and black (2.5Y 2/1) oxidized, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face, dry; ashy loam; 33 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 24 percent clay; strong very coarse prismatic parts to strong coarse prismatic structure; hard, firm, very weakly coherent, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; brittle; moderately slow permeability; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine irregular pores; 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented bluish gray (5B 5/1), moist, iron depletions infused into matrix along faces of peds and 10 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese concretions throughout and 20 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    C1—99 to 153 centimeters (39.0 to 60.2 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1), gray (2.5Y 5/1) broken face, dry; ashy fine sandy loam; 34 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 28 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine irregular pores; 5 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese concretions throughout and 10 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    2C2—153 to 163 centimeters (60.2 to 64.2 inches); very gravelly coarse sand; 90 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 20.0 fine interstitial pores; 2 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron around rock fragments; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog.; moist when described; observed in trench