IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Saddlebutte
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: JSP-09-209
  • User Pedon ID: S09OR045002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: JSP-09-209
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0344
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28164
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 44.3019447
  • Std. Longitude: -117.8733368
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR045—Malheur
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR645—Malheur County, Oregon, Northern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44117-C7—Cow Valley West, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MARK KELLER
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, mesic, shallow Vitrixerandic Argidurids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Saddlebutte
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, smectitic, mesic, shallow Vitrixerandic Argidurids
  • PSC - 15 to 40 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess derived from volcanic rock over lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: Lacustrine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter basalt,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/3/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • 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

    ACTH7

    ARTRW8

    FEID

    PERA

    POSE

    Achnatherum thurberianum

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Festuca idahoensis

    Pedicularis racemosa

    Poa secunda

    Thurber's needlegrass

    Wyoming big sagebrush

    Idaho fescue

    sickletop lousewort

    Sandberg bluegrass

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    duripan

    weakly cemented

    40 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    duripan

    0—15

    15—40

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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

    3

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    1162

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    20

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    A1—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; loam; 12 percent clay; weak coarse platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 6.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; 10.0 very fine vesicular and 4.0 fine vesicular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N01436; observed in pit, small
    A2—7 to 15 centimeters (2.8 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, moist; loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium platy parts to weak thin platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N01437; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—15 to 24 centimeters (5.9 to 9.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 40 percent distinct clay films; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, phenol red; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—24 to 40 centimeters (9.4 to 15.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; clay; 40 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 40 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bqm—40 to 53 centimeters (15.7 to 20.9 inches); silica present; 1.0 very fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red.; observed in pit, small