IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Downeygulch
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992OR063013
  • User Pedon ID: S1992OR063013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0339
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65682
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 45.2905540
  • Std. Longitude: -116.9408340
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 47E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: Approximately 3840 feet north and 240 feet west of the southeast corner
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR063—Wallowa
  • MLRA: 43—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR670—Wallowa County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Vitrandic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Downeygulch
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Downeygulch
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Vitrandic Xerochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/10/1992
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/10/1992 (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

    10

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    1609

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    225

    711

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    6.7

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P02633
    Bw1—8 to 33 centimeters (3.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P02634
    Bw2—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry; gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 93P02635
    2R—61 centimeters (24.0 inches); fragments.