IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): HOUSEFIELD
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993OR025015
  • User Pedon ID: 2013OR025001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1993OR025015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0022
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68498
  • 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: 43.0641670
  • Std. Longitude: -118.8413925
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 29S
  • Range: 31E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: about 1500 feet north and 1000 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: About 1.5 miles east of Buena Vista Station.
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR025—Harney
  • MLRA: 23—Malheur High Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR628—Harney County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mark Keller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, frigid Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Housefield (flagged as OSD)
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Housefield
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/20/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    SCAC3

    Schoenoplectus acutus

    hardstem bulrush

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

    mollic epipedon

    0—122

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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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    229

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    7

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    Oi—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); fragments. Partially decomposed roots and leaves. 3 to 6 inches thick.
    A—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; mucky silt loam; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; hard when dry, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. 5 to 15 inches thick. The A horizon has a chroma of 1 or 2. It has 15 to 25 percent clay. Many very fine, fine and medium irregular pores.
    Bw1—23 to 49 centimeters (9.1 to 19.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; mucky silt loam; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine and fine platy structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. The Bw horizon has a value of 2 or 3 moist, 4 or 5 dry, and chroma of 1 or 2. It is mucky silt loam, in the upper part grading to mucky silty clay loam in the lower part. It has 18 to 35 percent clay.
    Bw2—49 to 84 centimeters (19.3 to 33.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; mucky silt loam; strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P00104. Few white sand-sized pumice grains. The Bw horizon has a value of 2 or 3 moist, 4 or 5 dry, and chroma of 1 or 2. It is mucky silt loam, in the upper part grading to mucky silty clay loam in the lower part. It has 18 to 35 percent clay. Few fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) iron concentrations within peds and adjacent to pores.
    Bw3—84 to 99 centimeters (33.1 to 39.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; mucky silt loam; strong coarse prismatic structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Few 1 to 2mm diameter sand-size pumice grains, few glass shards. The Bw horizon has a value of 2 or 3 moist, 4 or 5 dry, and chroma of 1 or 2. It is mucky silt loam, in the upper part grading to mucky silty clay loam in the lower part. It has 18 to 35 percent clay. Few fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) iron concentrations within peds and adjacent to pores.
    Bw4—99 to 130 centimeters (39.0 to 51.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; mucky silty clay loam; strong coarse prismatic structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Few 1 to 2mm diameter sand-size pumice grains, few glass shards. Combined thickness of the Bw horizon is 30 to 45 inches thick. The Bw horizon has a value of 2 or 3 moist, 4 or 5 dry, and chroma of 1 or 2. It is mucky silt loam, in the upper part grading to mucky silty clay loam in the lower part. It has 18 to 35 percent clay. Many fine distinct dark brown (10YR 5/3) iron concentrations lining pores, common fine distinct brown (10YR 5/3) iron concentrations in ped interiors.
    2C—130 to 160 centimeters (51.2 to 63.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silty clay; massive; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. Black (10YR 2/1) organic matter coatings lining pores. The 2C horizon has a hue of 10YR, 2.5Y, or 5Y, value of 2 through 5 moist, 5 or 6 dry, and chroma of 0 through 3. It is silty clay, or clay. Many fine distinct grayish brown (2.5YR 5/2) iron depletions within peds and along pores, many distinct dark brown (7.5YR 4/4) iron concentrations within peds and along pores.