IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aspenbutte
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10-CEG-08
  • User Pedon ID: S10OR035001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 10-CEG-08
  • User Site Association ID: OR683 point data
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0411
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43427
  • User Project ID: 2019-2KLF-INITIAL-002
  • Project Name: Winema National Forest Area, Oregon - Initial
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025
  • 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: 42.3029167
  • Std. Longitude: -122.2083056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37 S
  • Range: 5 E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: about 215 m north of the southeast corner of
  • Location Description: about 0.25 miles north and 2.2 mile east of the intersection of Clover Creek Road and Dead Indian Memorial Road
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR035—Klamath
  • MLRA: 3—Olympic and Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR683—Winema National Forest Area, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42122-C2—Lake of the Woods South, Oregon
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gebauer, Chris
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, amorphic, frigid Alfic Hapludands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Aspenbutte
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal, amorphic, frigid Alfic Hapludands
  • PSC - 3 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/19/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and mudflows mixed with volcanic ash over colluvium derived from andesite
  • Landscape: Cascade mountains
  • Landform: moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainbase
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter andesite, 2.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter andesite, 1.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter andesite, 1.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter andesite, 1.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75- to 250-millimeter andesite, 1.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75- to 250-millimeter andesite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CWF241 - Abies concolor-Abies grandis/Chimaphila umbellata—Forested Plant Associations of the Oregon East Cascades; CWH112 - Abies concolor/Chrysolepis chrysophylla var. chrysophylla-Paxistima myrsinites-Chimaphila umbellata—Plant Assoc. of Klamath and S. Chiloquin RD's (R6 E 79-005)
  • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/19/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: ABCO/CHUM
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABCO

    ACOC3

    CAIN9

    CHUM

    LIBO3

    PAMY

    PILA

    PIPO

    ROSA5

    SYMO

    Abies concolor

    Achnatherum occidentale

    Carex inops

    Chimaphila umbellata

    Linnaea borealis

    Paxistima myrsinites

    Pinus lambertiana

    Pinus ponderosa

    Rosa

    Symphoricarpos mollis

    white fir

    western needlegrass

    long-stolon sedge

    pipsissewa

    twinflower

    Oregon boxleaf

    sugar pine

    ponderosa pine

    rose

    creeping snowberry

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

    andic soil properties

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    argillic horizon

    3—62

    3—26

    26—62

    62—208

    —59—

    —23—

    —36—

    —146—

    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

    14

    1597.2

    180

    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Oe—1 to 3 centimeters (0.4 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A1—3 to 12 centimeters (1.2 to 4.7 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; gravelly medial sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 12 percent clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-160-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter andesite fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, phenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N02118; observed in pit, small
    A2—12 to 26 centimeters (4.7 to 10.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly medial sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse granular, and weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-160-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter andesite fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.2, phenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N02119; observed in pit, small
    Bw—26 to 62 centimeters (10.2 to 24.4 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; very cobbly medial sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 very coarse roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.5 medium dendritic tubular and 0.5 fine dendritic tubular pores; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-160-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 22 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter andesite fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, phenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N02120; observed in pit, small
    2Bt1—62 to 107 centimeters (24.4 to 42.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; extremely cobbly loam; 30 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 medium dendritic tubular and 0.5 fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) clay films on all faces of peds and 40 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) clay films on rock fragments; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-160-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-160-250 millimeter andesite fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N02121; observed in pit, small
    2Bt2—107 to 165 centimeters (42.1 to 65.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/3), dry; extremely cobbly sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 14 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) clay films on all faces of peds and 50 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent medium and coarse indurated cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1) manganese coatings around rock fragments and 10 percent medium and coarse indurated cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1) manganese coatings on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-160-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular weakly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular weakly coherent cemented 75-160-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-160-250 millimeter andesite fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 11N02122; observed in pit, small
    2Bt3—165 to 208 centimeters (65.0 to 81.9 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/3), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 14 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 20 percent faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) clay films on rock fragments; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-160-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular weakly coherent cemented 75-160-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular weakly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-160-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter andesite fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red.; observed in auger, screw