IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ATHENA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1949OR059004
  • User Pedon ID: S1949OR059004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0952
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34011
  • 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: 45.7961121
  • Std. Longitude: -118.4372253
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 35E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4
  • Location Description: the Crow Field is about a mile southwest of Weston and 2.5 miles southeast of Athena, Umatilla County, Oregon. These samples of the profile of Athena silt loam were collected at Site 54a, which is about 530 feet south of the north side of the field and 35 feet west of the center line extending south from the road that runs north from the field on the one-sixteenth section line
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR059—Umatilla
  • MLRA: 9—Palouse and Nez Perce Prairies
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-PAS—Pasco, Washington
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR667—Umatilla County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, mesic Pachic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ATHENA
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, mesic Pachic Haploxerolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1949
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1949 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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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    AP1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; strong fine granular structure; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; 6 Chlorophenol re; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A07165
    AP2—20 to 21 centimeters (7.9 to 8.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; massive; very hard, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; 6.80000019 Chlorophenol re; slightly acid, pH 6.3, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A07166
    A3—21 to 38 centimeters (8.3 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; 6.5999999 Chlorophenol re; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A07167. this horizon is browner than the second layer of Palouse; vertical cracks are more pronounced than the horizontal cracks but not very distinct
    B1—38 to 66 centimeters (15.0 to 26.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; 7.19999981 Chlorophenol re; neutral, pH 6.9, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A07168. this horizon is only very slightly heavier than the above one but is distinctly browner and lighter colored; vertical cracks not very distinct but more so than the horizontal ones; breaks into weakly defined rounded coarse nuciform aggregates
    B2—66 to 79 centimeters (26.0 to 31.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 fine pores; fragments; 7.19999981 Chlorophenol re; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A07169. this material is slightly lighter colored, slightly harder, and more nuciform than the above layer
    B22—79 to 99 centimeters (31.1 to 39.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm; 21.0 roots; 21.0 fine pores; fragments; 7.19999981 Chlorophenol re; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A07170. this horizon is similar to the one above but is very slightly lighter in color and slightly more distinctly nuciform
    B3—99 to 117 centimeters (39.0 to 46.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; 7.69999981 Chlorophenol re; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A07171. slightly firmer and distinctly lighter and more yellowish in color than the above layer
    B31CA—117 to 130 centimeters (46.1 to 51.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; 7.69999981 Chlorophenol re; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A07172. occasional dark gray medium or coarse sand particle; few lime veins and coating around root channels
    B32CA—130 to 135 centimeters (51.2 to 53.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; 8.10000038 Chlorophenol re; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A07173. horizon resembles the layer above but has very few small very coarse sand basaltic particle
    C1—135 to 142 centimeters (53.1 to 55.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; 8.10000038 Chlorophenol re; very slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A07174. little segregated lime in places; some basaltic influence
    C2—142 to 152 centimeters (55.9 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; friable; fragments; 8.10000038 Chlorophenol re; very slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A07175. faint lime veins in places; slightly lighter colored silt loam containing less basaltic material than the above layer
    C3—152 to 165 centimeters (59.8 to 65.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; 8.10000038 Chlorophenol re; very slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A07176. somewhat massive; more basaltic fragments and coarse sand than in above layer; faint lime veins in places
    R—165 to 190 centimeters (65.0 to 74.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A07177. basalt bedrock