IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Josephine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969OR033001
  • User Pedon ID: S1969OR033001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 69C0198
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43771
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 42.2150002
  • Std. Longitude: -123.5416641
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 38S
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: this site is located about 560 feet north and 140 feet east of the SW corner
  • Location Description: the area is near the East fork of McMullin Creek about 7 miles SE of Selma
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR033—Josephine
  • MLRA: 5—Siskiyou-Trinity Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR033—Josephine County, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. O. Ness and R. C. Herriman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Palexerults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Josephine
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - JOSEPHINE
  • Classificaton Date - 10/29/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/29/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    55

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    561

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    0

    965

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    12.2

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    10.6

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    0 to 0 centimeters (0.0 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 69C01046
    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 21.0 interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C01036; moist when described;. 25 percent pebbles
    B1—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C01037; moist when described;. 12 percent pebbles
    B21T—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C01038; moist when described;. 8 percent pebbles
    B22T—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C01039; moist when described;. 10 percent pebbles
    B23T—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C01040; moist when described;. 5 percent pebbles
    B31T—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C01041; moist when described;. 12 percent pebbles
    B32T—107 to 130 centimeters (42.1 to 51.2 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C01042; moist when described;. 20 percent pebbles
    C1—130 to 150 centimeters (51.2 to 59.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; very gravelly clay loam; massive; dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films and 30 percent black stains; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C01043; moist when described;. clay films in joints; 50 percent angular saprolitic pebbles
    C2—150 to 178 centimeters (59.1 to 70.1 inches); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 69C01044; moist when described;. weathered bedrock
    C3—178 to 190 centimeters (70.1 to 74.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 69C01045; moist when described;