IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Booth
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09OR013001
  • User Pedon ID: S2009OR013001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 09OR013001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0352
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43398
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 43.8859711
  • Std. Longitude: -119.8960953
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 257—Booth-Powellbutte complex, 0 to 12 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR013—Crook
  • MLRA: 23—Malheur High Plateau
  • Regional Office: 1—Portland, OR
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR618—Crook County Area, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43119-H8—Hardin Ranch, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kurt L. Moffitt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Vertic 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 - Booth
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, frigid Vertic Palexerolls
  • PSC - 17 to 55 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over clayey residuum weathered from basalt
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: structural bench
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered basalt at 55cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: High Lava Plains Volcanic formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter volcanic, unspecified, 5.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter volcanic, unspecified, 15.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter basalt, 15.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter basalt, 5.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75- to 250-millimeter basalt, 5.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75- to 250-millimeter basalt,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R023XY216OR CLAYPAN 12-16 PZ

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/11/2009 (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 - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 15
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACTH7

    ARAR8

    CHVI8

    FEID

    LUPIN

    PHLO2

    POSE

    ZIGAD

    Achnatherum thurberianum

    Artemisia arbuscula

    Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

    Festuca idahoensis

    Lupinus

    Phlox longifolia

    Poa secunda

    Zigadenus

    Thurber's needlegrass

    little sagebrush

    yellow rabbitbrush

    Idaho fescue

    lupine

    longleaf phlox

    Sandberg bluegrass

    deathcamas

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    55 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—29

    17—55

    55—

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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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    1396

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    230

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    A—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; ashy sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-25-75 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-100-250 millimeter basalt fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N01916; observed in pit, small
    2Bt1—17 to 29 centimeters (6.7 to 11.4 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; clay loam; 40 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-300-600 millimeter basalt fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01917; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 834993; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 834993
    2Bt2—29 to 44 centimeters (11.4 to 17.3 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face, moist; stony clay; 35 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 44 percent clay; strong medium prismatic structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; high excavation difficulty; 50 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-350-600 millimeter basalt fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01918; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 834992; continuous - phpvsfiid 834992
    2Bt3—44 to 55 centimeters (17.3 to 21.7 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, moist; very stony clay; 34 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 43 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; high excavation difficulty; 60 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-400-600 millimeter basalt fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 834991; continuous - phpvsfiid 834991
    2R—55 to 65 centimeters (21.7 to 25.6 inches); bedrock; indurated; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small