IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wileyflat
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 00-JRD-05
  • User Pedon ID: S2000OR025001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 00-JRD-05
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P1205
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12701
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 43.8579025
  • Std. Longitude: -119.6405182
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20S
  • Range: 26E
  • Section: 7
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR025—Harney
  • 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: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Vitrandic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wileyflat
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, 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 rhyolite
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated rhyolite at 97cm 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

    ACOCO

    CAGE2

    LUPIN

    PIAM2

    Achnatherum occidentale ssp. occidentale

    Carex geyeri

    Lupinus

    Piper amalago

    western needlegrass

    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, lithic

    indurated

    97 - 122

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    4—30

    30—97

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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

    3

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    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P06964; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A1—4 to 13 centimeters (1.6 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; channery 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 4.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine irregular pores; 25 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-?-150 millimeter rhyolite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P06965; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very channery ashy loam; 25 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 4.0 very fine irregular and 4.0 fine irregular pores; 10 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-?-380 millimeter rhyolite fragments and 40 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-?-150 millimeter rhyolite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P06966; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt1—30 to 55 centimeters (11.8 to 21.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; extremely channery clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots around fragments; 4.0 very fine irregular and 4.0 fine irregular pores; 40 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume flat angular indurated 380-?-600 millimeter rhyolite fragments and 20 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-?-380 millimeter rhyolite fragments and 30 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-?-150 millimeter rhyolite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 00P06967; dry when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 19778; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 19778
    2Bt2—55 to 97 centimeters (21.7 to 38.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; extremely stony silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots around fragments; 10.0 very fine irregular and 10.0 fine irregular pores; 60 percent prominent clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-?-150 millimeter rhyolite fragments and 30 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-?-380 millimeter rhyolite fragments and 40 percent by volume flat angular indurated 380-?-600 millimeter rhyolite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P06968; dry when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 19779; continuous - phpvsfiid 19779
    2R—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 00P06969; dry when described; observed in pit, small