IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Minam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1964OR063008
  • User Pedon ID: S1964OR063008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0831
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33890
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 45.3744431
  • Std. Longitude: -117.3038864
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2S
  • Range: 44E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4, NW 1/4
  • Location Description: 2620 feet south and 1450 feet east of section corner. About 5 miles southeast of Enterprise on Alder Slope near Spring Creek.
  • 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 Vitrandic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Minam
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MIWAM
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/23/1964 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: DVC6M-113
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    10

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    1329

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    457

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    6.1

    15.6

    -3.9

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    AP—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06294; moist when described;. about 10 percent fragments 2 to 25 mm
    A12—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06295; moist when described;. about 10 percent fragments 2 to 25 mm; about 25 percent of the volume consists of krotovinas
    B21—48 to 63 centimeters (18.9 to 24.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; loam; 23 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06296; moist when described;. less than 5 percent coarse fragments smaller than 3 inches; about 15 percent of the volume consists of krotovinas
    B22—63 to 89 centimeters (24.8 to 35.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06297; moist when described;. less than 5 percent coarse fragments smaller than 3 inches
    2C—89 to 127 centimeters (35.0 to 50.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; very stony loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; brittle; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A06298; moist when described;. about 75 percent angular stones, cobbles, and gravel; andesite stones have many phenocrysts of quartz