IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tub
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10OR069004
  • User Pedon ID: S2010OR069004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 10OR069004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0364
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43410
  • 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: 45.0314178
  • Std. Longitude: -120.1272888
  • Datum: WGS84
  • 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-A2—Fossil North, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kyle Stephens
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Durixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tub
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Durixerolls
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and/or alluvium derived from basalt
  • Landscape: lava plateau
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACMI2

    TACA8

    Achillea millefolium

    Taeniatherum caput-medusae

    common yarrow

    medusahead

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

    duripan

    indurated

    81 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    slickensides

    durinodes

    duripan

    0—51

    28—81

    28—74

    74—81

    81—127

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    —53—

    —46—

    —7—

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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

    3

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    1151

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    A—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; silty clay; 5 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 45 percent clay; strong very thick platy structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 7.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 medium irregular pores; 50 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01949; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Btss1—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; gravelly clay; 4 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 57 percent clay; strong very coarse prismatic structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01950; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Btss2—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face, moist; silty clay; 10 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 46 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 40 percent distinct slickensides (geogenic) on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent coarse weakly coherent cemented durinodes throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01951; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt—74 to 81 centimeters (29.1 to 31.9 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, moist; silty clay; 15 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 42 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 medium irregular pores; 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 60 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01952; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Bqm1—81 to 94 centimeters (31.9 to 37.0 inches); ; strongly coherent; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Bqm2—94 to 127 centimeters (37.0 to 50.0 inches); ; very strongly coherent by silica; fragments.; observed in pit, large or quarry