IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Maule
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 00-JRD-04
  • User Pedon ID: S2000OR013007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 00-JRD-04
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P1204
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12700
  • 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: 44.0326157
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2385941
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18S
  • Range: 21E
  • Section: 8
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR013—Crook
  • MLRA: 43—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR618—Crook County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: James R. David, Thor D. Thorson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Vitrandic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Maule
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, frigid Vitrandic Argixerolls
  • PSC - 30 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/2000
  • 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: mountaintop
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent basalt at 102cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/2000 (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

    CAGE2

    LUPIN

    PIAM2

    POSC

    Carex geyeri

    Lupinus

    Piper amalago

    Poa scabrella

    Geyer's sedge

    lupine

    higuillo de limon

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    weakly coherent

    very strongly coherent

    88 - 102

    102 - 127

    - 14 -

    - 25 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    2—88

    30—89

    —86—

    —59—
    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

    5

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    1774

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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 # 00P06957; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A1—2 to 14 centimeters (0.8 to 5.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; ashy sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine irregular and 10.0 fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P06958; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—14 to 30 centimeters (5.5 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; ashy sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 very fine irregular and 10.0 fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P06959; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Btb1—30 to 50 centimeters (11.8 to 19.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; extremely cobbly sandy clay loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 4.0 fine irregular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 250-?-600 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P06960; dry when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 19774; continuous - phpvsfiid 19774
    2Btb2—50 to 88 centimeters (19.7 to 34.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; cobbly clay; 55 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.1 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular weakly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P06961; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 19775; continuous - phpvsfiid 19775
    2Cr/2C—88 to 102 centimeters (34.6 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very paragravelly sandy clay loam; structureless massive; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume nonflat subangular weakly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P06962; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2R—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 00P06963; moist when described; observed in pit, small