IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): RUDDLEY
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997OR023032
  • User Pedon ID: S1997OR023032
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1997OR023032
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0242
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10513
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 44.5186110
  • Std. Longitude: -118.6305560
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S.
  • Range: 34 E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 122 meters (400 feet) south and 671 meters (2200 feet) east of the northwest corner of section
  • Location Description: about 6 kilometers (4 miles) from U.S. 26 on Forest Service road 437; about 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Prairie City,
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR023—Grant
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • Regional Office: 1—Portland, OR
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR627—Grant County Area, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44118-E6—Dixie Meadows, 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 #: 32
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - RUDDLEY
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, shallow Lithic Argixerolls
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1997
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and residuum weathered from metavolcanic rock with a surface influence of Mazama volcanic ash
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: metavolcanics
  • 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 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    CARU

    PIPO

    PSME

    SYMPH

    AMELA

    CAGE2

    Calamagrostis rubescens

    Pinus ponderosa

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Symphoricarpos

    Amelanchier

    Carex geyeri

    pinegrass

    ponderosa pine

    Douglas-fir

    snowberry

    serviceberry

    Geyer's sedge

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    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

    22

    —

    —

    1494

    —

    180

    500

    —

    —

    6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 80.0 very fine roots and 8.0 fine roots; 15.0 very fine interstitial and 8.0 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01414
    Bt1—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 60.0 very fine roots and 6.0 fine roots; 10.0 very fine tubular and 6.0 fine tubular pores; 80 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P01415. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 201546; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 201546
    Bt2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) exterior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; gravelly clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 8.0 very fine roots; 20.0 very fine tubular pores; 70 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P01416. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 201547; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 201547
    2R—48 centimeters (18.9 inches); fragments.