IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Utley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09OR023001
  • User Pedon ID: S2009OR023001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 09OR023001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0357
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43403
  • 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: 44.0467262
  • Std. Longitude: -119.4800568
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR023—Grant
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • Regional Office: 1—Portland, OR
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR627—Grant County Area, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44119-A4—Izee, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kyle Stephens
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Vitrandic Haploxerolls
  • 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 - Utley
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Vitrandic Haploxerolls
  • Classificaton Date - 12/24/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and/or alluvium derived from sedimentary rocks with an influence of volcanic ash in the surface
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • 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
    R010XY117OR Mountain Swale 12-16 PZ

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/24/2010 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion rill, water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    FEID

    JUOC

    LECI4

    PURSH

    ARTRT

    CHGR6

    Festuca idahoensis

    Juniperus occidentalis

    Leymus cinereus

    Purshia

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata

    Chrysothamnus greenei

    Idaho fescue

    western juniper

    basin wildrye

    bitterbrush

    basin big sagebrush

    Greene's rabbitbrush

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

    mollic epipedon

    volcanic glass

    1—172

    1—30

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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

    10

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); ; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01925; observed in pit, small
    A1—1 to 8 centimeters (0.4 to 3.1 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; ashy sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular parts to single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 25.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-15-76 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A2—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches);, black (10YR 2/1) broken face, moist; ashy sandy clay loam; 65 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 fine irregular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-15-76 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01933; observed in pit, small
    A3—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; gravelly sandy loam; 80 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-15-76 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01934; observed in pit, small
    A4—61 to 147 centimeters (24.0 to 57.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; 75 percent sand; 5 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 25 percent by volume 2-15-76 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01935; observed in pit, small
    Bw—147 centimeters (57.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; 70 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 22 percent clay; 5.0 fine irregular pores; 25 percent by volume 2-15-76 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified.; observed in pit, small