IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): LICKSKILLET
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957OR055008
  • User Pedon ID: S1957OR055008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1957OR055008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0899
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33958
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 45.2419434
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5788879
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: NW of NE of NW, .2 miles east of section corner, 600 feet south 15 degrees east of road
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR055—Sherman
  • MLRA: 8—Columbia Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR055—Sherman County, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. W. Mayko
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Haploxerolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - LICKSKILLET
  • PSC - 13 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - GEM
  • Classificaton Date - 5/9/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/9/1957 (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

    ARTR2

    ASTRA

    BRTE

    POSE

    Artemisia tridentata

    Astragalus

    Bromus tectorum

    Poa secunda

    big sagebrush

    milkvetch

    cheatgrass

    Sandberg bluegrass

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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

    25

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    783

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    195

    254

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    9.4

    20.6

    -1.7

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    Kent

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; stony loam; weak thin platy, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 fine pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06777; moist when described;
    B1—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; stony clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 fine pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06778; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 190087; patchy - phpvsfiid 190087
    B2—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; stony clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; 3.0 fine pores; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06779; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 190088; continuous - phpvsfiid 190088
    R—51 to 100 centimeters (20.1 to 39.4 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A06780. basalt bedrock