IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): LICKSKILLET
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957OR055009
  • User Pedon ID: S1957OR055009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1957OR055009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0900
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33959
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 45.2538872
  • Std. Longitude: -120.9700012
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4, SW 1/4, NW 1/4
  • Location Description: 200 feet down slope from road
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR055—Sherman
  • MLRA: 8—Columbia Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR055—Sherman County, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Leo Mayers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Haploxerolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - LICKSKILLET
  • PSC - 102 to 56 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

    ACHIL

    ARTR2

    ASTRA

    BALSA

    JUNIP

    POSE

    Achillea

    Artemisia tridentata

    Astragalus

    Balsamorhiza

    Juniperus

    Poa secunda

    yarrow

    big sagebrush

    milkvetch

    balsamroot

    juniper

    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

    50

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    180

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and brown (10YR 5/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; very stony loam; weak medium platy, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 0.5 pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06781
    B1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; very stony clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 0.5 pores; clay films in root channels and/or pores and on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06782. patchy - phpvsfiid 190081; patchy - phpvsfiid 190081
    B21—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; very stony clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; 0.5 pores; clay films on faces of peds and in root channels and/or pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06783. continuous - phpvsfiid 190083; continuous - phpvsfiid 190083
    B22—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; very stony clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; 0.5 pores; clay films on faces of peds and in root channels and/or pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06784. continuous - phpvsfiid 190085; continuous - phpvsfiid 190085
    R—56 to 100 centimeters (22.0 to 39.4 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A06785. basalt bedrock