IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Risley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992OR025001
  • User Pedon ID: S1992OR025001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0446
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64685
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 43.7922211
  • Std. Longitude: -118.3933334
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21S
  • Range: 35E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: About 700 feet S and 500 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: on the Drewsey quadrangle.
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR025—Harney
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR628—Harney County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Xerollic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Risley
  • PSC - 8 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Glasgow
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Xerollic Haplargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/9/1992
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/9/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

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    1219

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    254

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    7.8

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    R—; fragments. Tuffaceous sedimentary bedrock.
    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; gravelly clay loam; moderate very fine platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02693
    Bt1—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, slightly sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 75 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02694
    Bt2—30 to 64 centimeters (11.8 to 25.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), dry; gravelly clay loam; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, slightly sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 75 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.
    BC—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; gravelly clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.
    Cr—94 to 99 centimeters (37.0 to 39.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), dry; gravelly sandy clay loam; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, moderately plastic; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.