IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Erakatak
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09OR013003
  • User Pedon ID: S2009OR013003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 09OR013003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0354
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43400
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 43.8222237
  • Std. Longitude: -119.8602982
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 258—Booth-Ateron complex, 2 to 20 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-G7—Mackey Butte, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kurt L. Moffitt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, smectitic, frigid Vitrandic Argixerolls
  • 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 - Erakatak
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, smectitic, frigid Vitrandic Argixerolls
  • PSC - 19 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/20/2009
  • 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: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated moderate weathered basalt at 69cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: High Lava Plains Volcanic formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • 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: 7/20/2009 (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 - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 26
  • 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

    ASTRA

    CHVI8

    ELELE

    FEID

    LEPU

    LUPIN

    POSE

    PSSPS

    Artemisia arbuscula

    Astragalus

    Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

    Elymus elymoides ssp. elymoides

    Festuca idahoensis

    Leptodactylon pungens

    Lupinus

    Poa secunda

    Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata

    little sagebrush

    milkvetch

    yellow rabbitbrush

    squirreltail

    Idaho fescue

    granite prickly phlox

    lupine

    Sandberg bluegrass

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    indurated

    58 - 69

    69 -

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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—58

    19—69

    69—

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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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    1496

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    340

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    A—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) rubbed, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) rubbed, moist; gravelly ashy sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 19 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 9.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 5.0 very fine interstitial and 1.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01923; observed in pit, small
    2Bt1—19 to 35 centimeters (7.5 to 13.8 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; gravelly clay loam; 40 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 835000; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 835000
    2Bt2—35 to 58 centimeters (13.8 to 22.8 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; very cobbly clay; 25 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 50 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; high excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 1.0 fine irregular pores; 90 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent coarse prominent platy moderately coherent cemented carbonate masses with sharp boundaries on bottom of rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-325-600 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01924; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 834999; continuous - phpvsfiid 834999
    2Crt—58 to 69 centimeters (22.8 to 27.2 inches); weathered bedrock; strongly coherent; high excavation difficulty; 95 percent prominent clay films on rock fragments; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-125-250 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments and 80 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 834998; continuous - phpvsfiid 834998
    2R—69 to 79 centimeters (27.2 to 31.1 inches); bedrock; indurated; very high excavation difficulty; fragments.; observed in pit, small