IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wallowa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1964OR063001
  • User Pedon ID: S1964OR063001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0833
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33892
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 45.5800018
  • Std. Longitude: -117.4236145
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 43E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 SE 1/4, 1400 feet north and 1600 feet west of section corner
  • Location Description: 180 feet east of gate, 125 feet north of center of county road right-of-way. About 6 miles east of Wallowa, and about 17 miles northwest of Enterprise.
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR063—Wallowa
  • MLRA: 9—Palouse and Nez Perce Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR670—Wallowa County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. W. Mayko and R. C. Herriman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wallowa
  • PSC - 10 to 29 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - WALLOWA
  • Classificaton Date - 7/20/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/20/1964 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: DVC-2M-58
  • 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
    • 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

    4

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    1204

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    432

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    6.7

    16.1

    -2.2

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    A11—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; 13 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06304; dry when described;. few krotovinas caused by rodents
    A12—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; 14 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06305; moist when described;. few krotovinas caused by rodents
    B21—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; 17 percent clay; weak medium and coarse prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06306; moist when described;. common, large krotovinas caused by rodents
    B22—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; silt loam; 21 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06307; moist when described;. very doubtful patchy thin clay films on prisms; common large krotovinas caused by rodents
    2R—74 to 100 centimeters (29.1 to 39.4 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; clay films; fragments. Lab sample # 40A06308; moist when described;. basalt bedrock; stones in upper 1 inch; not sampled; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 189779; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 189779