IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ausmus
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992OR025003
  • User Pedon ID: S1992OR025003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0448
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64687
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 43.6725006
  • Std. Longitude: -118.4091644
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22S
  • Range: 35E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: About 1600 feet N and 200 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: on the Bartlett Mountain quadrangle.
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR025—Harney
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR628—Harney County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquic Natrargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ausmus
  • PSC - 8 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ausmus
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Aquic Natrargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/9/1992
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/9/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; silt loam; moderate very coarse platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02697
    Btn—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay; weak fine and medium prismatic parts to strong very fine and fine angular blocky parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 75 percent faint coats on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02698
    Btnz—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 75 percent faint coats on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02698
    2Bnz1—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 75 percent faint coats on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02699
    2Bnz2—61 to 107 centimeters (24.0 to 42.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 75 percent faint coats on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02700
    BCz—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 75 percent faint coats on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 92P02701. Organic matter stains on faces of peds.