IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wisher
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: ARR-07-259
  • User Pedon ID: S2007OR644259
  • Vegetation Plot ID: ARR-07-259
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0195
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19712
  • 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: 43.0897217
  • Std. Longitude: -117.2241669
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 136—Wisher ashy silt loam, 0 to 4 percent slopes
  • State: Oregon
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR644—Malheur County, Oregon, Southern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42117-G3—Little Grassy Mountain, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Vitritorrandic argixerolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 259
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wisher
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Vitritorrandic argixerolls
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/23/2007 (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

    LECI4

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata

    Leymus cinereus

    basin big sagebrush

    basin wildrye

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

    argillic horizon

    13—34

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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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    4265

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    A1—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; ashy silt loam; 14 percent clay; fragments. Lab sample # 08N01259; observed in cut
    A2—7 to 13 centimeters (2.8 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; ashy silt loam; 22 percent clay; fragments. Lab sample # 08N01259; observed in cut
    Bt1—13 to 34 centimeters (5.1 to 13.4 inches); ashy silt loam; 24 percent clay; fragments.; observed in cut
    Bt2—34 to 70 centimeters (13.4 to 27.6 inches); ashy loam; 20 percent clay; fragments.; observed in cut
    Bkq—70 to 119 centimeters (27.6 to 46.9 inches); ashy loam; 15 percent clay; fragments; strong effervescence.; observed in cut