IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wallowa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1964OR063004
  • User Pedon ID: S1964OR063004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0834
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33893
  • 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: 45.4930573
  • Std. Longitude: -117.0644455
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 46E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4, NE1/4
  • Location Description: 2500 feet south and 900 feet west of section corner. About 14 miles northeast of Joseph on the Zumwalt road.
  • 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 Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wallowa
  • PSC - 25 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - WALLOWA
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/1964 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: DVC5M-102
  • 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

    3

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    1439

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    406

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    6.7

    15.6

    -2.8

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    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; 12 percent clay; weak very fine granular, and moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06309; dry when described;
    A3—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06310; moist when described;. few basaltic pebbles
    B21—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06311; moist when described;. few basaltic pebbles
    B22—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; 17 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06312; moist when described;. about 15 percent basaltic pebbles
    2R—76 to 0 centimeters (29.9 to 0.0 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; 75 percent clay films; fragments. Lab sample # 40A06313; moist when described;. basalt bedrock with pebbles and cobbles in upper part, lime coated