IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sherod
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993OR063001
  • User Pedon ID: S1993OR063001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0168
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66356
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 45.6755562
  • Std. Longitude: -117.6591644
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR063—Wallowa
  • MLRA: 9—Palouse and Nez Perce Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR670—Wallowa County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Lithic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sherod
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sherod
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Aeric Epiaquept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/3/1993
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/3/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; 21 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P01016
    Bt—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01017
    2Bw—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; very cobbly silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.
    3Bt—46 to 48 centimeters (18.1 to 18.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; very cobbly clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. continuous - phpvsfiid 179265; continuous - phpvsfiid 179265
    4R—48 centimeters (18.9 inches); fragments.