IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Boxcar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 00-RJO-01
  • User Pedon ID: S2000OR013002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 00-RJO-01
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P1199
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12695
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 44.5489960
  • Std. Longitude: -120.6938934
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 17E
  • Section: 4
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR013—Crook
  • MLRA: 43—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR618—Crook County Area, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44120-E6—Dutchman Creek, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert J. Ottersburg, Duane A. Lammers, Thor D. Thorson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Vertic Palexerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Boxcar
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, frigid Vertic Palexerolls
  • PSC - 34 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/17/2000
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over residuum weathered from basalt
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter basalt, 5.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 75- to 250-millimeter basalt,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/17/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    ABGR

    AMALS

    CAGE2

    PIAM2

    PRSC

    SYAL

    Abies grandis

    Amelanchier alnifolia var. semiintegrifolia

    Carex geyeri

    Piper amalago

    Pritchardia schattaueri

    Symphoricarpos albus

    grand fir

    Saskatoon serviceberry

    Geyer's sedge

    higuillo de limon

    lands of papa pritchardia

    common snowberry

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    2—34

    34—195

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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

    29

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    1195

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    320

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P06920; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A1—2 to 8 centimeters (0.8 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; ashy sandy loam; 20 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 4.0 very fine irregular pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P06921; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; ashy sandy loam; 20 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine irregular pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P06922; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Eb—25 to 34 centimeters (9.8 to 13.4 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; cobbly loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P06923; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Btb1—34 to 74 centimeters (13.4 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay; 25 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 medium roots between peds and 4.0 fine roots between peds; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 60 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds and 60 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, phenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P06924; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Btb2—74 to 125 centimeters (29.1 to 49.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; clay; 55 percent clay; strong coarse angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 4.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 60 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, phenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P06925; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2BCtb—125 to 195 centimeters (49.2 to 76.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; cobbly clay loam; 45 percent clay; strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 60 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-?-600 millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P06926; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2C—195 to 225 centimeters (76.8 to 88.6 inches);, 35 percent olive (5Y 5/3) and 35 percent dark gray (5Y 4/1) and 30 percent dusky red (10R 3/2), moist; clay loam; 35 percent clay; structureless massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red. Lab sample # 00P06927; moist when described; observed in pit, small