IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Laki
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967OR035003
  • User Pedon ID: S1967OR035003
  • User Site Association ID: OR683 point data
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 67C0038
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42931
  • Print Date: 11/25/2024

    • 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: 42.1463890
  • Std. Longitude: -121.4616699
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 39S
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 1280 feet E and 1930 feet S of NW corner
  • Location Description: About 13 miles E of Klamath Falls in Poe Valley.
  • Map Unit: 38—Laki loam
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR035—Klamath
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR640—Klamath County, Oregon, Southern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42121-B4—Bonanza, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A.O. Ness and J.S. Cahoon
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Vitrandic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Laki (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/22/2020
  • Classifier - Gebauer, Chris
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Laki
  • Classificaton Date - 9/12/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium and lacustrine deposits derived from basalt, diatomite, tuff and ash
  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/12/1967 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 4AA-117
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    volcanic glass

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    0—48

    0—152

    48—81

    122—152

    —48—

    —152—

    —33—

    —30—
    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

    —

    —

    1254

    —

    330

    —

    —

    8.3

    —

    —

    10

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; weak thin platy parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots; many (21.0) very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 67C00524
    A—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots; many (21.0) very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 67C00525
    AB—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots; many (21.0) very fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.9, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 67C00526
    Bw—48 to 81 centimeters (18.9 to 31.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots; many (21.0) very fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.9, thymol-blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 67C00527
    C1—81 to 122 centimeters (31.9 to 48.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few fine roots; many very fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 67C00529, 67C00528
    C2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; weak thick platy structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; many (21.0) very fine and fine tubular and few (0.5) medium tubular pores; 1 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 67C00530