IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Spikebutte
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08OR013001
  • User Pedon ID: S2008OR013001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 08OR013001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0351
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43397
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 43.9791374
  • Std. Longitude: -119.7656937
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR013—Crook
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR618—Crook County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kurt Moffitt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Palexerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Spikebutte
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Palexerolls
  • PSC - 20 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/30/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and residuum derived from marine sedimentary rocks with a minor influence of volcanic ash in the surface
  • Landscape: Blue and Ochoco Mountain foothills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Grindstone Terrane group .
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent indurated 2- to 75-millimeter mixed, 5.00 percent indurated 2- to 75-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R010XB080OR JD Claypan 12-16 PZ Apr 9 2024 Kurt Moffitt

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/30/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 29
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARAR8

    FEID

    KOMA

    LUPIN

    POSE

    PSSPS

    Artemisia arbuscula

    Festuca idahoensis

    Koeleria macrantha

    Lupinus

    Poa secunda

    Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata

    little sagebrush

    Idaho fescue

    prairie Junegrass

    lupine

    Sandberg bluegrass

    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—41

    20—56

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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

    5

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    1512.1

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    257

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; ashy loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01912; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2AB—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded indurated 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01913; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt1—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly clay; 51 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 1.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds and 35 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along pores and 35 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01914; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt2—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; gravelly clay; 41 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 1.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent pressure faces and 30 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent by volume subrounded indurated 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01915; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Crt—64 centimeters (25.2 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small