IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Waspo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992OR025004
  • User Pedon ID: S1992OR025004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0449
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64688
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 43.7336121
  • Std. Longitude: -118.3763885
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21S
  • Range: 35E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: About 1900 feet S and 3500 feet E of the NW 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: Very-fine, smectitic, mesic Entic Chromoxererts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Waspo
  • PSC - 25 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Waspo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Entic Chromoxerert
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/9/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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

    5

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    1128

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    254

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    7.8

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to strong fine granular structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine vesicular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02702. Half to three-quarter inch wide cracks.
    Bw1—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02703. Half inch wide cracks. Disseminated lime.
    Bw2—30 to 64 centimeters (11.8 to 25.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02703. Quarter inch wide cracks.
    Cr—64 to 127 centimeters (25.2 to 50.0 inches); massive; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 92P02704. Mixed light olive brown, white, and yellowish brown weathered siltstone. Common carbonate and gypsum deposits present.