IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): CHESNIMNUS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1964OR063011
  • User Pedon ID: S1964OR063011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0827
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33886
  • Print Date: 12/12/2024

    • 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: 45.4083328
  • Std. Longitude: -117.1663895
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2S
  • Range: 45E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4, NE 1/4, about 1250 feet south and 150 feet west of section corner
  • Location Description: About 6-1/2 miles northeast of Joseph on 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-loamy, mixed, frigid Calcic Argixerolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - CHESNIMNUS
  • PSC - 15 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - CHESNIMNUS
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/1964 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: DVC-3M-82
  • 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

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    1234

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    330

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    6.1

    15.6

    -3.3

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    AP—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; 23 percent clay; weak thin platy, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06267; moist when described;
    B2T—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 75 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06268; moist when described;
    B3—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06269; moist when described;. upper 2 inches has pockets of lime; lower 2 inches has common segregated lime spots 2 to 10 mm in diameter
    C1CA—41 to 89 centimeters (16.1 to 35.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; 21 percent clay; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06270; moist when described;
    2C2CA—89 to 107 centimeters (35.0 to 42.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; gravelly loam; 9 percent clay; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06271; moist when described;. about 30 percent by volume of lime coated pebbles; this horizon occupied about 25 percent of the pit face, the remaining percentage was occupied by the C1ca horizon
    3C3—107 to 122 centimeters (42.1 to 48.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; gravelly sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A06272; moist when described;. about 70 percent by volume of lime coated pebbles