IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Simas
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997OR023033
  • User Pedon ID: 97ORGCAO011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2015OR023001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0243
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10514
  • User Project ID: SSR012015001
  • Project Name: Soil Microbe Map Study
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 44.4513390
  • Std. Longitude: -119.4061130
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13 S.
  • Range: 28 E.
  • Section: 7
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR023—Grant
  • Regional Office: 1—Portland, OR
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-RED—Redmond, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44119-D4—Aldrich Mountain North, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Stan Winther
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Palexerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Simas
  • Classificaton Date - 7/30/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Simas
  • Classificaton Date - 8/6/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from tuffaceous sediments with a minor influence of Mazama volcanic ash in the surface horizons
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    ARTEM

    CHRYS9

    JUNIP

    Artemisia

    Chrysothamnus

    Juniperus

    sagebrush

    rabbitbrush

    juniper

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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

    12

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    805

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    180

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; cobbly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 4.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01417; dry when described;
    2Bt—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay; strong fine prismatic structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; prominent clay films on surfaces along pores and prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01418; dry when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 337540; continuous - phpvsfiid 337541; continuous - phpvsfiid 337540; continuous - phpvsfiid 337541
    2Btk—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 50 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, phenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P01419; dry when described;
    2Bk—53 to 152 centimeters (20.9 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very cobbly clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, phenol red. Lab sample # 98P01420; dry when described;