IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dester
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013OR017002
  • User Pedon ID: S2013OR017002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0021
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 43.7795302
  • Std. Longitude: -120.6056169
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21S
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4 of SW 1/4
  • Location Description: roughly 4.0 km SSE of Brothers, OR
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR017—Deschutes
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • Regional Office: 1—Portland, OR
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-RED—Redmond, Oregon
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR618—Crook County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jennifer Moffitt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Vitritorrandic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dester
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Vitritorrandic Argixerolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 61 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/2013
  • Classifier - Jennifer Moffitt
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/5/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Jennifer Moffitt
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

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    volcanic glass

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

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    0—61

    0—61

    61—81

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    —61—

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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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    1435.6

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    A1—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; paragravelly ashy coarse sandy loam; 5 percent clay; single grain; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter pumice fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 20N00074; observed in pit, small
    A2—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; ashy sandy loam; 10 percent clay; single grain; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-40-75 millimeter pumice fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 20N00075; observed in pit, small. at 33cm there is a band of pumice 1-2cm thick (gravels) w/ very little matrix. It sits on top of the A2 horizon. Almost no pumice gravels in A2 horizon.
    Bt—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; loam; 22 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; clay films; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-100-250 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method.; observed in pit, small