IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Drice
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: DCR-09-141
  • User Pedon ID: S09OR045016
  • Vegetation Plot ID: DCR-09-141
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0423
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40039
  • 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: 42.8157578
  • Std. Longitude: -117.1903229
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31 S.
  • Range: 45 E.
  • Section: 34
  • Map Unit: 142—Drice-Babala, high elevation, ashy silt loams complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR045—Malheur
  • MLRA: 25—Owyhee High Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR644—Malheur County, Oregon, Southern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42117-G2—Juniper Ridge, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Rand
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Vitritorrandic Durixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Drice
  • PSC - 30 to 62 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/17/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Drice
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, frigid Vitritorrandic Durixeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/8/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash and/or loess and/or residuum weathered from tuff
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: sand sheet on pediment
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent 2- to 5-millimeter tuff, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R025XY016OR SHALLOW CLAYPAN 11-13 PZ

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/8/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ARTRT

    FEID

    POSE

    PSSP6

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata

    Festuca idahoensis

    Poa secunda

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    basin big sagebrush

    Idaho fescue

    Sandberg bluegrass

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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

    duripan

    duripan

    duripan

    very strongly coherent

    strongly coherent

    very strongly coherent

    62 - 107

    107 - 120

    120 - 141

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    duripan

    0—30

    30—62

    62—141

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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

    2

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    1468

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    340

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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; ashy silt loam; 25 percent sand; 20 percent clay; moderate thick platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.2, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N01711; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    AB—12 to 30 centimeters (4.7 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; ashy silt loam; 25 percent sand; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 5.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 40 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; 2 percent krotovinas (volume percent); noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.2, phenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N01712; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; clay; 25 percent sand; 42 percent clay; strong very fine and fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable, noncoherent, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 40 percent silt coats on all faces of peds and 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume indurated 2-3-5 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume indurated 5-10-75 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, phenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N01713; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—48 to 62 centimeters (18.9 to 24.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; clay; 20 percent sand; 55 percent clay; strong medium prismatic structure; very hard, friable, noncoherent, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 100 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume moderately coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume indurated 5-10-75 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N01714; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bqkm1—62 to 107 centimeters (24.4 to 42.1 inches); 60 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and 40 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4), 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist; cemented material; moderate very thick platy structure; very strongly coherent by silica; 1.0 very fine roots top of horizon; 4.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 20 percent silica masses and 20 percent carbonate bands; 1 percent by volume indurated 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, phenol red; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 10N01715; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bqkm2—107 to 120 centimeters (42.1 to 47.2 inches); cemented material; strong very thick platy structure; strongly coherent by silica; 9.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, phenol red; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 10N01716; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bqkm3—120 to 141 centimeters (47.2 to 55.5 inches); cemented material; strong very thick platy structure; very strongly coherent by silica; 4.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, phenol red. Lab sample # 10N01717; moist when described; observed in pit, small