IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lapine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04-TDT-02
  • User Pedon ID: 2015OR035007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2015OR035007
  • User Site Association ID: OR683 point data
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N1022
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16979
  • User Project ID: SSR012015001
  • Project Name: Soil Microbe Map Study
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 43.2287610
  • Std. Longitude: -121.7949020
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27 south
  • Range: 8 east
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: about 1,010 feet N and 2,750 feet W of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: less than 1 mile north of Chemult, Oregon; 0.4 miles west of Highway 97 on Miller Lake Road; 650 feet north of Walt Haring Snow Park
  • Map Unit: 1031—Lapine paragravelly ashy coarse sandy loam, high precip cool, 2 to 12 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR035—Klamath
  • MLRA: 6—Cascade Mountains, Eastern Slope
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-RED—Redmond, Oregon
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR683—Winema National Forest Area, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43121-B7—Chemult, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Thor Thorson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy-pumiceous, glassy Xeric Vitricryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lapine
  • PSC - 1 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lapine
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Residue Description - 04N1022
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy pumice derived from volcanic rock
  • Landscape: lava plateau
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CWS141 - Abies concolor/Arctostaphylos patula—Forested Plant Associations of the Oregon East Cascades; CWS112 - Abies concolor/Ceanothus velutinus-Arcostaphylos patula-pumice—Plant Assoc. of Central Oregon Pumice Zone (R6 E 104-85)
  • Vegplot Text Note(s): This Vegetation Plot (Vegetation Plot ID 2015OR035007) is a copy of the original Vegetation Plot (04-TDT-02), updated with the bare ground data measured on 4/17/2015.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/17/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Gebauer, Chris; Chambers, Katrin
  • Plant Association Name: ABCO/ARPA
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACOCO

    ARPA6

    PICO

    PIPO

    PUTR2

    Achnatherum occidentale ssp. occidentale

    Arctostaphylos patula

    Pinus contorta

    Pinus ponderosa

    Purshia tridentata

    western needlegrass

    greenleaf manzanita

    lodgepole pine

    ponderosa pine

    antelope bitterbrush

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

    ochric epipedon

    andic soil properties

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    1—65

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

    4/17/2015

    8

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    7
    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

    11

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    1475

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    265

    610

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    30

    5.6

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    351546

    Chemult, Oregon

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05493; observed in pit, small
    A—1 to 10 centimeters (0.4 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior paragravelly ashy sandy loam; 5 percent clay; weak very thin platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 0.2 coarse roots throughout; 5.0 very fine interstitial and 1.0 medium interstitial and 1.0 fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-11-20 millimeter pumice fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05494; observed in pit, small
    AB—10 to 22 centimeters (3.9 to 8.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) exterior very paragravelly ashy sandy loam; 5 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 1.5 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 5.0 very fine interstitial and 2.0 medium interstitial and 5.0 fine interstitial pores; 45 percent by volume subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-11-20 millimeter pumice fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05495; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—22 to 37 centimeters (8.7 to 14.6 inches); 60 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) exterior and 30 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) exterior and 10 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior extremely paragravelly ashy coarse sand; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.4 very fine roots throughout and 0.2 medium roots throughout and 0.6 fine roots throughout; 10.0 medium interstitial and 10.0 fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume subangular moderately coherent cemented 20-40-75 millimeter pumice fragments and 70 percent by volume subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-11-20 millimeter pumice fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05496; observed in pit, small. 60 percent of the pumice fragments have iron oxide coatings of (10YR 6/8) moist, the remaining color is (10YR 8/2) moist
    Bw2—37 to 65 centimeters (14.6 to 25.6 inches); 50 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) exterior and 40 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) exterior and 10 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior extremely paragravelly ashy coarse sand; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.3 very fine roots throughout and 0.2 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 medium interstitial and 10.0 fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume subangular moderately coherent cemented 20-40-75 millimeter pumice fragments and 80 percent by volume subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-11-20 millimeter pumice fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05497; observed in pit, small. 90 percent of the pumice fragments have iron oxide coatings of (10YR 6/6) moist, the remaining color is (10YR 8/2) moist
    BC—65 to 94 centimeters (25.6 to 37.0 inches); 60 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) and 30 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and 10 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) extremely paragravelly ashy coarse sand; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 medium interstitial and 10.0 fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume subangular moderately coherent cemented 20-40-75 millimeter pumice fragments and 85 percent by volume subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-11-20 millimeter pumice fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05498; observed in pit, small. 2 percent of the pumice fragments have iron oxide coatings of (10YR 6/6) moist, the remaining color is (2.5Y 7/2) moist
    C1—94 to 135 centimeters (37.0 to 53.1 inches); 70 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) exterior and 30 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior extremely paragravelly ashy coarse sand; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20.0 fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume subangular moderately coherent cemented 20-40-75 millimeter pumice fragments and 75 percent by volume subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-11-20 millimeter pumice fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05499; observed in pit, small. 1 percent of the pumice fragments have iron oxide coatings of (10YR 7/8) moist, the remaining color is (2.5Y 7/2) moist
    C2—135 to 200 centimeters (53.1 to 78.7 inches); 60 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) exterior and 40 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior extremely paragravelly ashy coarse sand; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20.0 fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume subangular moderately coherent cemented 20-40-75 millimeter pumice fragments and 75 percent by volume subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-11-20 millimeter pumice fragments. Lab sample # 04N05500; observed in pit, small. color of the pumice fragments is (2.5Y 7/2) moist