IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Deschutes
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987OR017001
  • User Pedon ID: 87OR017001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0510
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59805
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 44.2000008
  • Std. Longitude: -121.3666687
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16S
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: in the SE 1/4 SE 1/4
  • Location Description: About eight miles N of Bend Oregon.
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR017—Deschutes
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: William Ferry, Thor Thorson, and W.D. Nettleton.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy, mixed, superactive, mesic Vitritorrandic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Deschutes
  • PSC - 25 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Deschutes
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Aridic Haploxeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—46

    25—53

    53—61

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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

    3

    —

    —

    1008

    —

    270

    64

    —

    —

    8

    17

    1

    10

    18

    2

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    —

    —

    —

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); 30 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3), 30 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 70 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02688; moist when described;. the soil material with (10YR 7/3 dry; 10YR 6/3 moist) is coarse and very coarse pumice sand from Mt. Mazama; many very fine and fine roots throughout
    Ap2—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); 30 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3), 30 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 70 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02689; moist when described;. the soil material with (10YR 7/3 dry, 10YR 6/3 moist) is coarse and very coarse pumice sand from Mt. Mazama; few very fine roots throughout
    Bw—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); 30 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3), 30 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 70 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02690; moist when described;. the soil material with (10YR 7/3 dry, 10YR 6/3) moist is coarse and very coarse pumice sand from Mt. Mazama; few very fine roots throughout
    Bq—46 to 53 centimeters (18.1 to 20.9 inches); 30 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and 70 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), 30 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist; sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm by silica, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine vesicular and 2.5 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02691; moist when described;. the soil material with (10YR 7/3 dry, 10YR 6/3 moist) is coarse and very coarse pumice sand from Mt. Mazama; few very fine roots throughout
    2R—53 to 61 centimeters (20.9 to 24.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 87P02692