IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mcbain
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995OR025002
  • User Pedon ID: S1995OR025002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1995OR025002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0560
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10830
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 43.2002792
  • Std. Longitude: -118.8877792
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27S
  • Range: 31E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: about 1490 feet west and 750 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Harney County, Oregon. about 3 miles south of the Malheur Field Station on the Center Patrol Road.
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR025—Harney
  • MLRA: 23—Malheur High Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR628—Harney County Area, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43118-B8—Coyote Buttes, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Sodic Xeric Haplocambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mcbain
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mcbain
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, frigid Sodic Xeric Haplocambid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1995
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARTRT

    LECI4

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata

    Leymus cinereus

    basin big sagebrush

    basin wildrye

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    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

    2

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    1253

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    229

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    7

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P03284. Strongly effervescent with disseminated lime on faces of peds; SAR 125, EC 30, calcium carbonate 13. 3 to 7 inches thick. The A horizon has value of 5 or 6 dry, 3 or 4 moist and chroma of 2 or 3 moist and dry. It is strongly to very strongly alkaline. SAR is 50 to 125. EC is 16 to 30 mmhos. It has 10 to 15 percent calcium carbonate.
    Bk1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.9, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P03285. Violently effervescent with disseminated lime on faces of peds; SAR 50, EC 9, calcium carbonate 23. 5 to 8 inches thick. The Bk horizon has value of 5 through 7 dry, 3 or 4 moist and chroma of 2 or 3 moist and dry. It is stratified layers of clay loam and loam with 18 to 35 percent clay. It is moderately alkaline to strongly alkaline. SAR is 13 to 50. EC is 5 to 10 mmhos. It has 15 to 30 percent calcium carbonate.
    Bk2—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P03286. Violently effervescent with disseminated lime on faces of peds; SAR 14, EC 8, calcium carbonate 25. 7 to 13 inches thick. The Bk horizon has value of 5 through 7 dry, 3 or 4 moist and chroma of 2 or 3 moist and dry. It is stratified layers of clay loam and loam with 18 to 35 percent clay. It is moderately alkaline to strongly alkaline. SAR is 13 to 50. EC is 5 to 10 mmhos. It has 15 to 30 percent calcium carbonate.
    Bk3—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Violently effervescent with disseminated lime on faces of peds. 4 to 7 inches thick. The Bk horizon has value of 5 through 7 dry, 3 or 4 moist and chroma of 2 or 3 moist and dry. It is stratified layers of clay loam and loam with 18 to 35 percent clay. It is moderately alkaline to strongly alkaline. SAR is 13 to 50. EC is 5 to 10 mmhos. It has 15 to 30 percent calcium carbonate.
    BC1—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P03287. Very slightly effervescent with disseminated lime on faces of peds; SAR 5, EC 3, calcium carbonate trace. 7 to 12 inches thick. The BC and C horizons have value of 5 to 7 dry, 3 or 4 moist and chroma of 3 or 4 moist and dry. It is stratified layers of loam, clay loam, sandy loam and very fine sandy loam, with 10 to 30 percent clay. SAR is 0 to 5. EC is 0 to 5 mmhos. It has 0 to 1 percent calcium carbonate.
    BC2—94 to 109 centimeters (37.0 to 42.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Very slightly effervescent with disseminated lime on faces of peds; 4 to 7 inches thick. The BC and C horizons have values of 5 to 7 dry, 3 or 4 moist and chroma of 3 or 4 moist and dry. It is stratified layers of loam, clay loam, sandy loam and very fine sandy loam, with 10 to 30 percent clay. SAR is 0 to 5. EC is 0 to 5 mmhos. It has 0 to 1 percent calcium carbonate.
    C—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Very slightly effervescent with disseminated lime on faces of peds. The BC and C horizons have value of 5 to 7 dry, 3 or 4 moist and chroma of 3 or 4 moist and dry. It is stratified layers of loam, clay loam, sandy loam and very fine sandy loam, with 10 to 30 percent clay. SAR is 0 to 5. EC is 0 to 5 mmhos. It has 0 to 1 percent calcium carbonate.