IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elmore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955OR013006
  • User Pedon ID: S1955OR013006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1955OR013006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0916
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33975
  • 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: 44.2138901
  • Std. Longitude: -120.9108353
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15S
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4, NW 1/4, SW 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
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elmore
  • PSC - 46 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ELMORE
  • 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

    CHRYS9

    POSE

    Chrysothamnus

    Poa secunda

    rabbitbrush

    Sandberg bluegrass

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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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    1256

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    305

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular, and moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A06880. rootbound sod; surface paved with fine and medium pink to reddish rhyolite chips and angular gravels
    A3—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate thin platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A06881
    B1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06882
    B2—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent clay films; 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06883. patchy - phpvsfiid 190153; patchy - phpvsfiid 190153
    B3CA—61 to 89 centimeters (24.0 to 35.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) very gravelly loam, channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06884. 70 percent of horizon is fragments; thick clay skins on gravels
    CCA—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; loose, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, unspecified; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A06885. overlies a Dr horizon at deeper depth