IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ZUMWALT
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1964OR063006
  • User Pedon ID: S1964OR063006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0227
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32756
  • 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: 45.5372238
  • Std. Longitude: -117.0719452
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 46E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 SE 1/4, 140 feet east and 60 feet south of the center
  • Location Description: (center of section is center of gate). About 10-1/2 miles northeast of Joseph near head of Pine Creek (2 miles east of Crow Creek 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, smectitic, frigid Vertic Palexerolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - ZUMWALT
  • PSC - 41 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 7/22/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

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

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/22/1964 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: DVC5M-99
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

    1460

    406

    6.1

    15.6

    -3.3

    AP—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak medium platy, and moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01693; dry when described;
    A21—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak medium and coarse prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01694; dry when described;
    2A22—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 17 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01695; dry when described;. stone line with about 10 percent fragments coarser than 3/4 inch
    2B21T—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; clay; 45 percent clay; moderate fine and medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; clay films; 1 percent manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A01696; moist when described;. common slickensides up to 5 cm long; A2 horizon material capping prisms; few basaltic fragments 2 to 10 mm in diameter; concretions 2 to 5 mm in diameter that effervesce with H2O2; continuous - phpvsfiid 189765; continuous - phpvsfiid 189765
    2B22T—51 to 63 centimeters (20.1 to 24.8 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay; 45 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; clay films; 1 percent manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01697; moist when described;. common slickensides up to 5 cm long; few basaltic fragments 2 to 10 mm in diameter; concretions 2 to 5 mm in diameter that effervesce with H2O2; continuous - phpvsfiid 189766; continuous - phpvsfiid 189766
    2B3ca—63 to 94 centimeters (24.8 to 37.0 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; clay films; 1 percent manganese concretions; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A01698; moist when described;. few basaltic fragments 2 to 10 mm in diameter; concretions 2 to 5 mm in diameter that effervesce with H2O2; common light gray lime segregations 2 to 20 mm in diameter; continuous - phpvsfiid 189767; continuous - phpvsfiid 189767
    3R—94 to 100 centimeters (37.0 to 39.4 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A01699; moist when described;. volcanic tuff; not sampled