IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Jeniped
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015OR013055
  • User Pedon ID: S2015OR013055
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2015OR013055
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0039
  • User Project ID: 2022-1RED-OR618-INITIAL
  • Project Name: Crook County Area, Oregon - Initial
  • 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: 44.1448583
  • Std. Longitude: -120.1397483
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR013—Crook
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • Regional Office: 1—Portland, OR
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR618—Crook County Area, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44120-B2—Committee Creek, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kurt Moffitt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Vitritorrandic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Jeniped
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Vitritorrandic Argixerolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 13 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/31/2015
  • Classifier - Kurt Moffitt
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over residuum
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: pediment
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: noncoherent fanglomerate at 51cm
  • Geology: Fanglomerate member of the Rattlesnake formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat rounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter basalt, 1.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter basalt, 5.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 75- to 250-millimeter basalt,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R010XB022OR JD Clayey 9-12 PZ Jan 25 2016 Kurt Moffitt

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/31/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Taylor Cullum-Muyres, Gabriella Coughlin, Kurt Moffitt
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • 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

    JUOC

    ARTRT

    ARTRW8

    BRTE

    POSE

    TACA8

    THELY3

    ACMIO

    CHVI8

    Juniperus occidentalis

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Bromus tectorum

    Poa secunda

    Taeniatherum caput-medusae

    Thelypodiopsis

    Achillea millefolium var. occidentalis

    Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

    western juniper

    basin big sagebrush

    Wyoming big sagebrush

    cheatgrass

    Sandberg bluegrass

    medusahead

    tumblemustard

    western yarrow

    yellow rabbitbrush

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, densic

    noncoherent

    51 - 61

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    volcanic glass

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    densic contact

    0—25

    0—25

    13—51

    42—51

    51—61

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    —25—

    —38—

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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

    6

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    1130.9

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; ashy fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; strong thick platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-25-75 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in trench
    AB—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; ashy clay loam; 29 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 8 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-25-75 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 20N00130; observed in trench
    2Bt—25 to 42 centimeters (9.8 to 16.5 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; very cobbly clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 80 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-25-75 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in trench
    2Btkq—42 to 51 centimeters (16.5 to 20.1 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) broken face, moist; very gravelly clay; 42 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 70 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 80 percent coarse carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments and 20 percent medium silica masses on bottom of rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-25-75 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in trench
    2Cd—51 to 61 centimeters (20.1 to 24.0 inches); extremely cobbly clay; massive; noncoherent; 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method and 50 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-25-75 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method.; observed in trench