IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kaskela
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10OR069005
  • User Pedon ID: S2010OR069005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 10OR069005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0365
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43411
  • 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: 45.0544167
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0782776
  • 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 Typic Haploxererts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kaskela
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Haploxererts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/3/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACMI2

    Achillea millefolium

    common yarrow

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

    mollic epipedon

    slickensides

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—33

    33—76

    33—132

    76—152

    —33—

    —43—

    —99—

    —86—
    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

    6

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    989

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    A—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; cobbly silty clay; 10 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 55 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 10.0 very fine roots between peds and 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 1.0 medium dendritic tubular and 1.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 20 percent by volume subrounded 76-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments, by hcl, 1n; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01953; observed in pit, small
    Btss—33 to 76 centimeters (13.0 to 29.9 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; clay; 65 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 30 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on vertical faces of peds and 40 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments, by hcl, 1n; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01954; observed in pit, small
    Btk—76 to 132 centimeters (29.9 to 52.0 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; 30 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 30 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses around rock fragments; 3 percent by volume subrounded 76-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments, by hcl, 1n; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01955; observed in pit, small
    Bk—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; loam; 40 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 25 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 15 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses in matrix; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded 76-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 11N01956; observed in pit, small