IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wisher
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: ARR-07-232
  • User Pedon ID: S2007OR644232
  • Vegetation Plot ID: ARR-07-232
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0194
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19711
  • 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: 43.0897217
  • Std. Longitude: -117.2241669
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Oregon
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR644—Malheur County, Oregon, Southern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43117-A2—Downey Canyon, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: .
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Vitritorrandic argixerolls
  • Pedon #: 232
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wisher
  • PSC - 65 to 105 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wisher
  • Classificaton Date - 9/18/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash derived from and/or alluvium derived from
  • Landscape: lava plateau
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/18/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: 025XY062OR
  • 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

    JUNCU

    LECI4

    PSSP6

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata

    Juncus

    Leymus cinereus

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    basin big sagebrush

    rush

    basin wildrye

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—65

    65—105

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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

    1

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    4383

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; ashy silt loam; 10 percent clay; moderate thin platy structure; 10.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, phenol red.
    AB—5 to 65 centimeters (2.0 to 25.6 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; ashy silt loam; 12 percent clay; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; 5.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red. Lab sample # 08N01257
    Bt1—65 to 97 centimeters (25.6 to 38.2 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red.
    Bt2—97 to 105 centimeters (38.2 to 41.3 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; sandy clay loam; 40 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky structure; 2.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; 20 percent distinct pressure faces; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, phenol red.
    Ck—105 to 153 centimeters (41.3 to 60.2 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; sandy clay loam; 40 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky structure; 2.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red. Lab sample # 08N01258