IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Juntura
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015OR045125
  • User Pedon ID: 2015OR045125
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2015OR045125
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0643
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 85191
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 43.7632972
  • Std. Longitude: -118.1100194
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21S
  • Range: 38E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: about 3 km northwest of the town of Juntura, 660 meters north and 230 meters east of the southwest corner of section 7
  • Map Unit: 4003—Juntura ashy silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR045—Malheur
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • Regional Office: 1—Portland, OR
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR645—Malheur County, Oregon, Northern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43118-G1—Stemler Ridge, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Pace, Jeff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquandic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Juntura (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/2017
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Juntura
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/30/2015
  • Classifier - Pace, Jeff
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash and alluvium derived from igneous and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: rare ponding for brief 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
    R010XY003OR WET MEADOW Sep 30 2015 JSP

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/30/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Pace, Jeff
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    ALPR3

    CAREX

    JUNCU

    PHAR3

    Alopecurus pratensis

    Carex

    Juncus

    Phalaris arundinacea

    meadow foxtail

    sedge

    rush

    reed canarygrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    volcanic glass

    redox concentrations

    endosaturation

    reduced matrix

    0—115

    0—115

    11—115

    40—150

    85—115

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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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    906

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    75

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    Oa—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; ashy peat; 10 percent sand; 18 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (10.0) very fine roots; many (10.0) very fine irregular pores; ; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N02774; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—11 to 45 centimeters (4.3 to 17.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; ashy silt loam; 25 percent sand; 20 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many (5.0) very fine roots; many (6.0) very fine tubular pores; 5 percent fine faint irregular iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N02775; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    AC—45 to 85 centimeters (17.7 to 33.5 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3), dry; ashy silt loam; 25 percent sand; 16 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10 percent prominent iron-manganese masses lining pores and 10 percent prominent manganese coatings lining pores and 10 percent prominent iron depletions in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N02776; wet when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg1—85 to 115 centimeters (33.5 to 45.3 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; ashy fine sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 16 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10 percent prominent iron-manganese masses lining pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N02777; wet when described; observed in pit, small
    2Cg2—115 to 150 centimeters (45.3 to 59.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; loamy coarse sand; 80 percent sand; 7 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # 16N02778; wet when described; observed in pit, small