IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): HELPHENSTEIN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996OR025004
  • User Pedon ID: S1996OR025004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1996OR025004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 96P0342
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68420
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 43.1138878
  • Std. Longitude: -118.9199982
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28S
  • Range: 31E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4 of the NE 14. Alkali flat off of foster flat Rd.
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR025—Harney
  • MLRA: 24—Humboldt Basin and Range Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR628—Harney County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Sodic Aquicambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - HELPHENSTEIN
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Icene
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Aquisalid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/6/1996
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: alluvial flat
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/6/1996 (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

    DISTI

    ERTE18

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata

    Distichlis

    Ericameria teretifolia

    basin big sagebrush

    saltgrass

    green rabbitbrush

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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

    0

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    1257

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    Az1—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; clay loam; moderate coarse platy structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P02646
    Az2—7 to 17 centimeters (2.8 to 6.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; clay loam; moderate medium platy structure; hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P02647
    Bkz1—17 to 28 centimeters (6.7 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; loam; moderate fine platy parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P02648
    Bkz2—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; weak fine platy parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 3 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses throughout and 3 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P02649
    Bk1—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; moderate fine platy parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; brittle; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P02650. Los in channel stripes 10YR 4/4 mottles.
    Bk2—81 to 92 centimeters (31.9 to 36.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; loam; weak fine platy parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 3 percent fine irregular weakly coherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) iron concretions throughout; 3 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout and 3 percent fine platy carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P02651
    Bk3—92 to 153 centimeters (36.2 to 60.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium platy structure; hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 3 percent fine irregular weakly coherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) iron concretions throughout; 3 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence broken boundary. Lab sample # 96P02652
    C1—92 to 153 centimeters (36.2 to 60.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; noneffervescent broken boundary. Lab sample # 96P02653. This horizon and the Bk3 above are the same with the Bk3 totaling 75% and the C1 totaling 25%.
    C2—153 to 204 centimeters (60.2 to 80.3 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 3 percent fine irregular weakly coherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) iron concretions throughout; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 96P02654