IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Suncold
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: ARR-07-246
  • User Pedon ID: S2007OR644246
  • Vegetation Plot ID: ARR-07-246
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0192
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19709
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 43.0125008
  • Std. Longitude: -117.2630539
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 125—Suncold-Bogusrim ashy silt loams, 2 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Oregon
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR644—Malheur County, Oregon, Southern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43117-A3—Cow Lakes, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Abruptic xeric argidurids
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 246
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Suncold
  • PSC - 11 to 52 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Suncold
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash derived from and/or loess derived from and/or residuum weathered from
  • Landscape: lava plateau
  • Landform: lava plateau
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 3.00 percent nonflat rounded indurated 5- to 75-millimeter 2.00 percent nonflat rounded indurated 75- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: 025XY061OR
  • 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

    ARAR8

    POSE

    PSSP6

    Artemisia arbuscula

    Poa secunda

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    little sagebrush

    Sandberg bluegrass

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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

    duripan

    duripan

    bedrock, lithic

    moderately coherent

    very strongly coherent

    indurated

    52 - 60

    60 - 62

    62 - 72

    - 8 -

    - 2 -

    - 10 -

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

    argillic horizon

    duripan

    lithic contact

    11—52

    52—62

    62—72

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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

    2

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    4406

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    A—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; ashy silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak thick platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots; 8.0 fine vesicular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.2, phenol red; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt1—11 to 21 centimeters (4.3 to 8.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; cobbly ashy silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 7 percent by volume 5-10-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-100-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, phenol red; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt2—21 to 31 centimeters (8.3 to 12.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; cobbly silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial and 2.0 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 5-10-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-100-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt3—31 to 44 centimeters (12.2 to 17.3 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; cobbly clay; 50 percent clay; strong medium prismatic, and strong medium angular blocky structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 50 percent distinct pressure faces; 5 percent by volume 5-10-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-100-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt4—44 to 52 centimeters (17.3 to 20.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; 1.0 very fine interstitial pores; 30 percent distinct pressure faces; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red. Lab sample # 08N01255; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bkqm1—52 to 60 centimeters (20.5 to 23.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist; loam; 25 percent clay; very hard, extremely firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, phenol red.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bkqm2—60 to 62 centimeters (23.6 to 24.4 inches); rigid, rigid, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments, by hcl, unspecified.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    R—62 to 72 centimeters (24.4 to 28.3 inches); fragments.