IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gardone

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: 04-TDT-03

User Pedon ID: 04OR017001

Vegetation Plot ID: 2015OR017003

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - SSL

Lab Pedon # - 04N1020

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16977

User Project ID: SSR012015001

Project Name: Soil Microbe Map Study

Print Date: 12/4/2024

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: 43.8612213

Std. Longitude: -120.9877777

Datum: WGS84

Township: 20 south

Range: 15 east

Section: 6

PLSS Details: SW1/4 of the SW1/4

Location Description: about 20 miles east of Bend, Oregon on Highway 20; 2.6 miles south from the junction of Highway 20 and USFS road 23/25 and 50 yards east of USFS road 23/25

Map Unit: 55A—Gardone-Borobey complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes

Country: US—United States

State: Oregon

County: OR017—Deschutes

MLRA: 23—Malheur High Plateau

Regional Office: SW—Southwest

MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-KLF—Klamath Falls, Oregon

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR620—Upper Deschutes River Area, Oregon, Parts of Deschutes, Jefferson, and Klamath Counties

7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43120-G8—Pine Mountain, Oregon

PEDON

Describers Name: Thor Thorson

Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy, glassy, frigid Vitritorrandic Haploxerolls

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Pedon #: 1

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Gardone

PSC - 25 to 100 cm.

Classificaton Date - 8/19/2005

Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition

Moisture Class - aridic (torric)

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Gardone

Classificaton Date - 6/30/2004

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Erosion Class - 0

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: sandy and gravelly alluvium derived from basalt and/or sandy eolian deposits derived from volcanic rock

Landscape: lake plain

Landform: fan terrace

Slope Complexity: simple

Runoff: very low

Drainage Class: excessively

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

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
R023XY210OR	PUMICE 10-12 PZ	Apr 28 2015	Kurt Moffitt

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 6/30/2004 (actual site observation date)

Surface Water Kind: none observed

Plant Association Name: Pumice 8-10 PZ

Surface Cover Properties:

Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover

Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Drained? - no

Bedded Soil? - no

Forest Plantation? - no

Current Weather - partly cloudy

Vegetation Plot Plants
Plant Symbol	Scientific Name	National Vernacular Name	Plant Type Group	Canopy Cover %	Vegetation Stata Level
ACOCO ARTRV CAREX CHRYS9 ELMU3	Achnatherum occidentale ssp. occidentale Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana Carex Chrysothamnus Elymus multisetus	western needlegrass mountain big sagebrush sedge rabbitbrush big squirreltail	— — — — —	— — — — —	— — — — —

Pedon Restrictions
Kind	Hardness	Restriction Depth L-H	Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
		cm
duripan	very strongly coherent	150 - 170	- 20 -

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
mollic epipedon cambic horizon duripan	0—37 87—122 150—170	—37— —35— —20—

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
5	—	—	1281	—	90	254	—	70	6.7	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	351067	Brothers, Oregon	—

A1—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); 97 percent brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and 3 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) exterior, 97 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and 3 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, moist; ashy loamy sand; 5 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05478; observed in pit, small

A2—7 to 37 centimeters (2.8 to 14.6 inches); 90 percent brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and 10 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) exterior, 90 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior and 10 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, moist; ashy loamy sand; 5 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05479; observed in pit, small

C—37 to 60 centimeters (14.6 to 23.6 inches); 85 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior and 15 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) exterior, 85 percent brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and 15 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, moist; ashy loamy sand; 5 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05480; observed in pit, small

2Ab—60 to 87 centimeters (23.6 to 34.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; ashy loamy sand; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05481; observed in pit, small

2Bqb—87 to 122 centimeters (34.3 to 48.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; ashy sandy loam; 13 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm by silica, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05482; observed in pit, small

3Bkb—122 to 150 centimeters (48.0 to 59.1 inches); variegated 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and 20 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2) exterior and 20 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, 60 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior and 20 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) exterior and 20 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; gravelly coarse sand; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 medium interstitial and 10.0 fine interstitial pores; 20 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry, carbonate masses in matrix; 30 percent by volume well rounded indurated 2-11-20 millimeter basalt fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05483; observed in pit, small

3Bkqmb—150 to 170 centimeters (59.1 to 66.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; extremely gravelly cemented material; massive; very strongly coherent by silica and carbonates; brittle; very slow permeability; very high excavation difficulty; 70 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry, carbonate masses around rock fragments; 70 percent by volume well rounded indurated 2-11-20 millimeter basalt fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 04N05484; observed in pit, small