IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): AYRES
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955OR013003
  • User Pedon ID: S1955OR013003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1955OR013003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0919
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33978
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 44.2483330
  • Std. Longitude: -120.9647217
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15S
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4, SE 1/4, SE 1/4
  • Location Description: Prineville area.
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR013—Crook
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-RED—Redmond, Oregon
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR654—Prineville Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: George Smith
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - AYRES
  • PSC - 25 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - AYRES
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    ARTR2

    BRTE

    CHRYS9

    JUNIP

    Artemisia tridentata

    Bromus tectorum

    Chrysothamnus

    Juniperus

    big sagebrush

    cheatgrass

    rabbitbrush

    juniper

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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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    975

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    229

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak thin platy structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; pumice fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A06899. moderate amounts of pale brown pumice of fine and medium sand size; numerous grayish and reddish angular and subangular gravels
    A3—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; sandy loam; weak fine platy, and weak medium platy, and weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A06900. gravels increase in size and amount with depth
    B1—20 to 24 centimeters (7.9 to 9.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly loam; moderate medium platy, and weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent by volume pumice fragments and 21 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A06901
    B2—24 to 36 centimeters (9.4 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; clay films on faces of peds; 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 21 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A06902. partially oriented with flat surfaces horizontal on fragments; little or no pumice; calcium carbonate on lower surface of cobbles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 190159; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 190159
    B2m—36 to 74 centimeters (14.2 to 29.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4); massive; indurated by silica; prominent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A06903. structure has weak coarse platy lenses of brown silica having a very dense glazed opalized appearance; some segregation of iron, silica, and calcium
    C—74 to 74 centimeters (29.1 to 29.1 inches); cobbly loam, gravelly loam; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A06904. variegated reddish and grayish rhyolite