IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Waha
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10OR069001
  • User Pedon ID: S2010OR069001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2015OR069001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0361
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43407
  • User Project ID: SSR012015001
  • Project Name: Soil Microbe Map Study
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 45.0353889
  • Std. Longitude: -120.1153641
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 22E
  • Section: 20
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR069—Wheeler
  • MLRA: 9—Palouse and Nez Perce Prairies
  • Regional Office: 1—Portland, OR
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR677—Wheeler County Area, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45120-A1—Salmon Fork, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ryan L. Miebach
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic 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 - Waha
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argixerolls
  • PSC - 13 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/2010
  • 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: loamy loess with an influance of volcanic ash over fine-loamy residuum weathered from basalt
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: patterned ground
  • Microfeature: mound
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered basalt at 61cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Columbia River Basalts group .
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 21
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    2GP

    ACMI2

    FEID

    PSSP6

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    Achillea millefolium

    Festuca idahoensis

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    Grass, perennial

    common yarrow

    Idaho fescue

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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

    abrupt textural change

    bedrock, lithic

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    indurated

    13 -

    61 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    abrupt textural change

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

    0—61

    13—

    13—61

    13—

    61—

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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

    8

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    1214

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    320

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) rubbed, moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 9.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-5-76 millimeter basalt fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01944; observed in trench. This horizon contains a small amount of glass (volcanic ash).
    2Bt1—13 to 43 centimeters (5.1 to 16.9 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; on surfaces along pores and on rock fragments and 90 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-10-76 millimeter basalt fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01945; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 835002; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 835002
    2Bt2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face, moist; very cobbly clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; on surfaces along pores and 20 percent prominent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-60-76 millimeter basalt fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 76-120-250 millimeter basalt fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt irregular boundary.; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 835005; patchy - phpvsfiid 835005
    2R—61 centimeters (24.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in trench