IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ROCKLY
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997OR023031
  • User Pedon ID: S1997OR023031
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1997OR023031
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0241
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10512
  • 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: 44.5394440
  • Std. Longitude: -119.4811096
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR023—Grant
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-RED—Redmond, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44119-E4—Sheep Ridge, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Stan Winther
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 31
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ROCKLY
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Lithic Haploxerolls
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1997
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: basalt
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1997 (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

    JUNIP

    PURSH

    Chrysothamnus

    Juniperus

    Purshia

    rabbitbrush

    juniper

    bitterbrush

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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

    41

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    1189

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    180

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; extremely cobbly loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 80.0 very fine roots and 8.0 fine roots; 12.0 very fine tubular and 8.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume subangular 250-425-600 millimeter basalt fragments and 20 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P01413
    2R—23 centimeters (9.1 inches); fragments.