IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Deschutes
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987OR017003
  • User Pedon ID: 87OR017003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0512
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59807
  • 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: 44.3666649
  • Std. Longitude: -121.1666641
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14S
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4, NE 1/4, NW 1/4
  • Location Description: 121 degrees, 10 min W; 44 degrees, 22 min N
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR017—Deschutes
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy over loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Vitritorrandic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Deschutes
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • 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 - 4/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02699. few very fine roots
    A2—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02700. few very fine and fine roots
    Bw—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02701. few very fine roots
    2Bkqm—46 to 53 centimeters (18.1 to 20.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; sandy loam; hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02702
    3R—53 to 61 centimeters (20.9 to 24.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 87P02703. basalt