IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Smiling
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05OR0352081
  • User Pedon ID: S2012OR035005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 05OR0352081
  • User Site Association ID: OR683 point data
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8335
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55310
  • 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: 42.5603306
  • Std. Longitude: -121.7345194
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35 S
  • Range: 8 E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: about 290 feet north and 1,485 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: 1015—Maset-Smiling complex, 2 to 12 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-E6—SOcholis Canyon, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Marr, David
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy over loamy, glassy over isotic, frigid Alfic Vitrixerands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Smiling
  • PSC - 3 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/17/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bly
  • Classificaton Date - 10/17/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over colluvium and residuum derived from diatomite, siltstone, and/or volcanic sandstone
  • Landscape: lava plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: undulating
  • Slope Shape Down: undulating
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent slight weathered mudstone at 125cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F006XY708OR Frigid Xeric Foothills 12-20 PZ Jun 19 2012 Gebauer, Chris
  • Other Vegetative Class: CPS211 - Pinus ponderosa/Purshia tridentata/Festuca idahoensis—Forested Plant Associations of the Oregon East Cascades

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/17/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: PIPO/PUTR2/FEID p.a
  • 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

    ACOC3

    AMAL2

    CARO5

    CHUM

    CLARK

    COGR4

    CRYPT

    ELEL5

    ERBL2

    GADI2

    PIPO

    PUTR2

    Achnatherum occidentale

    Amelanchier alnifolia

    Carex rossii

    Chimaphila umbellata

    Clarkia

    Collomia grandiflora

    Cryptantha

    Elymus elymoides

    Ericameria bloomeri

    Gayophytum diffusum

    Pinus ponderosa

    Purshia tridentata

    western needlegrass

    Saskatoon serviceberry

    Ross' sedge

    pipsissewa

    clarkia

    grand collomia

    cryptantha

    squirreltail

    rabbitbush

    spreading groundsmoke

    ponderosa pine

    antelope bitterbrush

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    125 - 160

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

    ochric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    cambic horizon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    paralithic contact

    0—15

    3—70

    15—70

    70—125

    70—

    125—

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    —67—

    —55—

    —55—

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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

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    1438.7

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    257

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    Oe—2 to 3 centimeters (0.8 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; ashy coarse sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (8.0) very fine roots and many (8.0) fine roots and common (3.0) coarse roots; many (10.0) very fine interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-5-20 millimeter pumice fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter andesite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N05013; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—15 to 45 centimeters (5.9 to 17.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; ashy coarse sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few (0.8) very coarse roots and common (3.0) medium roots and many (8.0) fine roots and common (3.0) coarse roots; many (8.0) very fine interstitial and many (8.0) fine irregular pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-5-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter andesite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N05014; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—45 to 70 centimeters (17.7 to 27.6 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; ashy coarse sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few (0.8) very coarse roots and common (3.0) medium roots and many (8.0) fine roots and common (3.0) coarse roots; many (8.0) very fine interstitial and many (8.0) fine irregular pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-5-20 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter andesite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N05015; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt—70 to 125 centimeters (27.6 to 49.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist; silty clay loam; 58 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 32 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots; many (8.0) fine tubular and common (3.0) fine irregular pores; 100 percent prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-35-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N05016; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Cr—125 to 160 centimeters (49.2 to 63.0 inches); bedrock; moderately coherent; fragments.; dry when described; observed in pit, small