IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kaskela
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10OR069002
  • User Pedon ID: S2010OR069002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0362
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43408
  • 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: 45.0516930
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0759430
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 22E
  • Section: 10
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR069—Wheeler
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • 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: Very-fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Haploxererts
  • 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 - Kaskela
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Haploxererts
  • PSC - 10 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/3/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey slope alluvium derived from basalt over loamy complex landslide deposits derived from tuff
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: landslide
  • Microfeature: open depression
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 27
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    abrupt textural change

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    94 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    volcanic glass

    argillic horizon

    slickensides

    secondary carbonates

    abrupt textural change

    0—94

    0—10

    10—

    10—69

    69—170

    94—

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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

    1

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    996

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) crushed, black (10YR 2/1) rubbed, moist; clay; 50 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 0.0 pores; 66 reversible trans-horizon cracks per meter that extend above the horizon; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    Btss—10 to 69 centimeters (3.9 to 27.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face, black (10YR 2/1) broken face, moist; clay; 60 percent clay; strong very coarse prismatic structure; rigid, slightly rigid, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 0.0 pores; 66 reversible trans-horizon cracks per meter that extend above and below the horizon; 25 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds and 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01946; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 835007; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 835008; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 835007; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 835008
    2Btk1—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; clay; 50 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots between peds; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 1.0 medium dendritic tubular and 1.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; on surfaces along pores and 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with sharp boundaries between peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 835009; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 835009
    2Btk2—94 to 170 centimeters (37.0 to 66.9 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; loam; 22 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots between peds; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 1.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 25 percent fine prominent threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 11N01947; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 835011; patchy - phpvsfiid 835011