IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Steiger
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987OR035001
  • User Pedon ID: 87OR035001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2015OR035010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0519
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59814
  • User Project ID: SSR012015001
  • Project Name: Soil Microbe Map Study
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 43.5333328
  • Std. Longitude: -121.4583359
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23S
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR035—Klamath
  • MLRA: 6—Cascade Mountains, Eastern Slope
  • Regional Office: 1—Portland, OR
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-RED—Redmond, Oregon
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR620—Upper Deschutes River Area, Oregon, Parts of Deschutes, Jefferson, and Klamath Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43121-E4—Moffitt Butte, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy, glassy Xeric Vitricryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Steiger
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lapine
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy Typic Cryandept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1987
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash
  • Landform: pumice terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

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    1372

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    O—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 87P02749. litter of lodgepole pine needles
    A—3 to 21 centimeters (1.2 to 8.3 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) and very pale brown (10YR 7/4), 10 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) and 90 percent brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loamy sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02750. few coarse roots; few very fine roots
    AC—21 to 31 centimeters (8.3 to 12.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) and very pale brown (10YR 7/4), 25 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) and 75 percent brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly loamy sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02751. few coarse roots; few very fine roots
    C1—31 to 54 centimeters (12.2 to 21.3 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/4) and yellow (10YR 8/6), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; very gravelly coarse sand; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02752. few very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    C2—54 to 105 centimeters (21.3 to 41.3 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) and very pale brown (10YR 7/4) and very pale brown (10YR 8/4), white (10YR 8/1) and very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; coarse sand; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02753. few fine and medium roots; few coarse roots
    2A1b—105 to 138 centimeters (41.3 to 54.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) coarse faint mottles; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine to coarse roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02754. few fine to coarse roots; many coarse faint 10YR32 mottles
    3A2b—138 to 171 centimeters (54.3 to 67.3 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 30 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) coarse faint mottles; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 medium vesicular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 87P02755. few fine roots; many coarse faint 7.5YR32 mottles
    3C—171 to 194 centimeters (67.3 to 76.4 inches); extremely gravelly coarse sand; fragments. Lab sample # 87P02756