IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SIMAS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998OR069002
  • User Pedon ID: S1998OR069002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1998OR069002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0237
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11096
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 44.9152794
  • Std. Longitude: -120.4397202
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Half mile SW of Camp Hancock
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR069—Wheeler
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-RED—Redmond, Oregon
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR677—Wheeler County Area, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44120-H4—Clarno, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Stan Winther
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Vertic Palexerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - SIMAS
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Simas
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Palexeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/1998
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/11/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    FEID

    Festuca idahoensis

    Idaho fescue

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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

    45

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    475

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; very gravelly clay loam; strong very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 11.0 very fine roots and 5.0 fine roots; 10.0 very fine and 8.0 fine pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter tuff, acidic fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P01233
    2Bt—3 to 33 centimeters (1.2 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 70.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; 60.0 very fine and 5.0 fine pores; 95 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P01234. continuous - phpvsfiid 202772; continuous - phpvsfiid 202772
    2Bt/2C—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, 40 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior and 60 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) exterior, moist; clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 40.0 very fine roots; 20.0 very fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P01235
    2CK—58 to 130 centimeters (22.8 to 51.2 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) exterior, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) exterior, moist; clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 10.0 very fine pores; faint carbonate coats on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 99P01236. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 202773; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 202773
    3Cr—130 centimeters (51.2 inches); fragments.