IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Smiling
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 11OR035009
  • User Pedon ID: S2012OR035002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 11OR035009
  • User Site Association ID: OR683 point data
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8332
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55307
  • 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: 42.4777778
  • Std. Longitude: -121.8386111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36 S
  • Range: 7 E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: about 2,230 feet north and 200 feet west of the southeast corner of
  • Map Unit: 1383—Smiling-Jummer-Windego complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR035—Klamath
  • MLRA: 6—Cascade Mountains, Eastern Slope
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR683—Winema National Forest Area, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42121-D7—Modoc Point, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gebauer, Chris
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy over loamy, glassy over isotic, frigid Alfic Vitrixerands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Smiling
  • PSC - 5 to 105 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/2012
  • Classifier - Gebauer, Chris
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sisters
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy over loamy, glassy over isotic, frigid Humic Vitrixerands
  • Classificaton Date - 9/12/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: dacitic, pumiceous volcanic ash over colluvium and residuum derived from diatomite, siltstone, and/or volcanic sandstone
  • Landscape: lava plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered sandstone, volcanic at 130cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CDS645 - Pseudotsuga menziesii/Ceanothus prostratus—Forested Plant Associations of the Oregon East Cascades; CWS116 - Abies concolor/Ceanothus velutinus-Ceanothus prostratus/Fragaria virginiana—Plant Assoc. of Klamath and S. Chiloquin RD's (R6 E 79-005)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/12/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: PSME/CEPR
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    ABCO

    AMALS

    APFL

    ARPA6

    CADE27

    CELE3

    CEPR

    CEVE

    ELEL5

    FEID

    FRVI

    PIPO

    PSME

    PUTR2

    Abies concolor

    Amelanchier alnifolia var. semiintegrifolia

    Apocynum xfloribundum [androsaemifolium x cannabinum]

    Arctostaphylos patula

    Calocedrus decurrens

    Cercocarpus ledifolius

    Ceanothus prostratus

    Ceanothus velutinus

    Elymus elymoides

    Festuca idahoensis

    Fragaria virginiana

    Pinus ponderosa

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Purshia tridentata

    white fir

    Saskatoon serviceberry

    APOCYNUM FLORIBUNDUM

    greenleaf manzanita

    incense cedar

    curl-leaf mountain mahogany

    prostrate ceanothus

    snowbrush ceanothus

    squirreltail

    Idaho fescue

    Virginia strawberry

    ponderosa pine

    Douglas-fir

    antelope bitterbrush

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

    bedrock, lithic

    bedrock, paralithic

    strongly coherent

    moderately coherent

    130 - 140

    140 - 150

    - 10 -

    - 10 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    paralithic contact

    0—12

    5—65

    12—65

    65—

    65—130

    130—140

    140—150

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    —60—

    —53—

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    —65—

    —10—

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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

    20

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    1545.3

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    270

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.; observed in pit, small. No box sample; needles, twigs and cones
    Oe—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.; observed in pit, small. No box sample; pine litter
    A—5 to 12 centimeters (2.0 to 4.7 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2), moist; ashy loamy sand; 70 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (2.0) very fine roots and common (2.0) fine roots; common (2.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter andesite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N05001; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—12 to 42 centimeters (4.7 to 16.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; ashy loamy sand; 60 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 12 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.5) very fine roots and few (0.5) medium roots and few (0.5) fine roots and few (0.5) coarse roots; common (2.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-15-20 millimeter andesite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N05002; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—42 to 55 centimeters (16.5 to 21.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; ashy loamy sand; 60 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; few (0.5) very fine roots and few (0.5) very coarse roots and few (0.5) medium roots and few (0.5) fine roots and few (0.5) coarse roots; common (2.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-160-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter andesite fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N05003; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—55 to 65 centimeters (21.7 to 25.6 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; ashy loamy sand; 55 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; few (0.5) very fine roots and few (0.5) medium roots and few (0.5) coarse roots; few (0.5) fine dendritic tubular and common (2.0) fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-160-250 millimeter andesite fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bt1—65 to 85 centimeters (25.6 to 33.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; 25 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; few (0.5) very fine roots and few (0.5) medium roots and few (0.5) fine roots; few (0.5) fine dendritic tubular and few (0.5) fine irregular pores; 10 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, and brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry, clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, and brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry, clay films on rock fragments and 10 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, and brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry, clay films on surfaces along root channels; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 75-160-250 millimeter mudstone fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter mudstone fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter mudstone fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N05004; observed in pit, small
    2Bt2—85 to 130 centimeters (33.5 to 51.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very paragravelly clay loam; 30 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; few (0.5) very fine roots and few (0.5) medium roots and few (0.5) fine roots; few (0.5) fine dendritic tubular and few (0.5) fine irregular pores; 20 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, and brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry, clay films on all faces of peds and 20 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, and brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry, clay films on rock fragments and 20 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, and brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry, clay films on surfaces along root channels; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 75-160-250 millimeter mudstone fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter mudstone fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2R—130 to 140 centimeters (51.2 to 55.1 inches); bedrock; strongly coherent; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Cr—140 to 150 centimeters (55.1 to 59.1 inches); bedrock; moderately coherent; fragments.; observed in pit, small