IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Helphenstein
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 97OR037001
  • User Pedon ID: 97OR037001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0139
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10411
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 42.7920671
  • Std. Longitude: -120.6255248
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32S
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4 of the NW 1/4
  • Location Description: 3 1/2 miles northwest and 5 miles PT east of Summer Lake.
  • Map Unit: 474C—Kewake-Helphenstein complex, 0 to 25 percent slopes382—Kewake-Helphenstein complex, 0 to 25 percent slopes
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR037—Lake
  • MLRA: 23—Malheur High Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR635—Lake County, Oregon, Northern Part, Parts of Lake and Klamath Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42120-H6—Ana River, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy, glassy, mesic Sodic Aquicambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Helphenstein
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Helphenstein
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: flat
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/12/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    Aknz—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bknz1—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate very fine platy parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P00890
    Bknz2—30 to 45 centimeters (11.8 to 17.7 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; 40 percent clay; strong very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.
    Bknz3—45 to 63 centimeters (17.7 to 24.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), moist; clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate very fine platy parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, coats on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bknz4—63 to 75 centimeters (24.8 to 29.5 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), moist; loamy fine sand; 3 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00891
    Bknz5—75 to 113 centimeters (29.5 to 44.5 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 16 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.