LOCATION ALBEE                   OR+ID

Established Series
Rev. DRJ/WEL/KMS
11/2018

ALBEE SERIES

Landscape--mountains, plateaus, ridges on plateaus
Landform--mountain slopes, plateaus, biscuits on patterned ground, mounds on summits of plateaus and structural benches
Slope--2 to 60 percent
Parent material--colluvium derived from basalt mixed with loess and an influence of volcanic ash in the upper part
Mean annual precipitation--about 570 mm
Mean annual air temperature--about 6 degrees C
Depth class--moderately deep to lithic bedrock
Drainage class--well drained
Soil moisture regime--xeric
Soil temperature regime--frigid
Soil moisture subclass--typic

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Vitrandic Haploxerolls

TYPICAL PEDON: Albee ashy silt loam in an area of rangeland

A--0 to 25 cm; ashy silt loam, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) dry, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) moist; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky and slightly plastic; common very fine roots; 5 percent gravel; neutral (pH 7.0); clear smooth boundary

2Bw1--25 to 48 cm; silt loam, brown (10YR 5/3) dry, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) moist; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky and slightly plastic; few very fine roots; 5 percent gravel; neutral (pH 7.0); clear wavy boundary

2Bw2--48 to 71 cm; silt loam, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) dry, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) moist; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky and slightly plastic; few very fine roots; 10 percent gravel; neutral (pH 7.2); abrupt smooth boundary

2R--71 cm; basalt

TYPE LOCATION: Umatilla County, Oregon; in the NE1/4NW1/4NW1/4 of section 35, T. 1 N., R. 35 E.; latitude 45.5287673, longitude -118.4106594, Datum WGS84 (Coordinates estimated from PLSS details)

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Soil moisture--usually moist, but dry in all parts 60 to 80 consecutive days between depths of 10 and 30 cm in summer
Mean annual soil temperature--about 6 to 8 degrees C
Depth to lithic contact--50 to 100 cm
Hue--10YR, 7.5YR
Thickness of mollic epipedon--25 to 50 cm
Thickness of ash-influenced layers--20 to 40 cm

Estimated properties of layers influenced by volcanic ash
*Ammonium oxalate extractable Al + Fe--0.4 to 0.8 percent
*Volcanic ash content in 0.02- to 2.0-mm fraction--5.0 to 15 percent

Particle-size control section
*Clay content--18 to 27 percent
*Content of fine sand or coarser material--more than 15 percent

A horizon
Value--2 or 3 moist, 4 or 5 dry
Chroma--2 or 3 moist or dry
Fine-earth texture--ashy silt loam
Clay content--15 to 25 percent
Sand content--15 to 30 percent
Organic matter content--2 to 5 percent
Total rock fragment content--0 to 5 percent
Gravel content--0 to 5 percent
Reaction--5.6 to 7.3
Thickness--10 to 40 cm

Bw horizons
Value--3 or 4 moist, 4 to 6 dry
Chroma--3 or 4 moist or dry
Fine-earth texture--silt loam
Clay content--15 to 25 percent
Sand content--15 to 30 percent
Organic matter content--0.5 to 2.0 percent
Total rock fragment content--0 to 25 percent
Gravel content--0 to 25 percent
Cobble content--0 to 10 percent
Reaction--5.6 to 7.3
Combined thickness--15 to 75 cm

COMPETING SERIES:
Chug, Goodalfs--no lithic contact in upper 150 cm
Izee--channers throughout
Utley--no lithic contact in upper 100 cm
Wallowa, Wrightman--mollic epipedon 50 to 75 cm thick

GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Elevation--930 to 1640 m
Climate--cold, wet winters; hot, dry summers
Mean annual precipitation--350 to 890 mm
Mean annual air temperature--5.0 to 7.2 degrees C
Mean January air temperature--about -5 degrees C
Mean July air temperature--about 17 degrees C
Frost-free period--50 to 110 days

GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
Anatone, Bocker--lithic contact at a depth of 25 to 50 cm
Klicker--argillic horizon; skeletal
Tolo, Helter--mantle of volcanic ash more than 50 cm thick

DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY:
Saturation during normal years--none
Flooding--none
Ponding--none
Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat)--moderately high throughout

USE AND VEGETATION:
Use--livestock grazing, wildlife habitat, recreation, grain production in some areas
Potential native vegetation--Idaho fescue, bluebunch wheatgrass, Sandberg bluegrass, brome, parsnipflower buckwheat, prairie Junegrass, lupine, phlox, serrate balsamroot, common yarrow, desertparsley, pale agoseris, arrowleaf balsamroot

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Uplands of Blue Mountains in eastern Oregon and northwestern Idaho; MLRA 9; moderate extent

MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Portland, Oregon

SERIES ESTABLISHED: Umatilla County, Oregon; 1985

REMARKS:
Diagnostic horizons and other features in this pedon
*Mollic epipedon--zone from the surface to a depth of 48 cm
*Cambic horizon--zone from 48 to 71 cm
*Volcanic glass--zone from the surface to a depth of 25 cm
*Depth to lithologic discontinuity--25 cm
*Particle-size control section--zone from 25 to 71 cm
*Ultic feature--base saturation less than 75 percent (sum) in zone from 25 to 71 cm

5/2016--This official series description was updated according to SSR1 Technical Note 11--Content and Format of Official Series Descriptions (revised 12/2015). Most of the changes were in formatting; no major technical changes were made.

ADDITIONAL DATA:
Partial laboratory data--reference sample numbers S92OR-063-008 and 009; Wallowa County, Oregon; Kellogg Soil Survey Laboratory, Lincoln, Nebraska; 1/1994

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National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.