IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ricco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015OR023308
  • User Pedon ID: S2015OR023308
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0042
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 44.4218300
  • Std. Longitude: -119.2469000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR023—Grant
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-RED—Redmond, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44119-D3—Shop Gulch, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kurt Moffitt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ricco
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Endoaquolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/5/2015
  • Classifier - Gabriella Coughlin
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R010XY004OR MEADOW

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/3/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Gabriella Coughlin
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    abrupt textural change

    0—30

    67—127

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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

    0.5

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    796

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face silty clay loam; 17 percent sand; 37 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; few (0.8) very fine roots throughout and few (0.1) fine roots throughout; few (0.1) medium tubular and few (0.4) fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00137; observed in pit, small
    Bwg1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face silty clay loam; 11 percent sand; 39 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm; few (0.2) fine roots throughout and few (0.4) fine roots throughout; few (0.1) medium tubular pores; 20 percent pressure faces; 5 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 15 percent distinct iron depletions; 10 percent prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00138; observed in pit, small
    Bwg2—30 to 47 centimeters (11.8 to 18.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 32 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm; few (0.3) very fine roots throughout and few (0.3) fine roots throughout; few (0.6) very fine dendritic tubular and few (0.3) fine dendritic tubular pores; 8 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 65 percent distinct masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00139; observed in pit, small
    Bwg3—47 to 67 centimeters (18.5 to 26.4 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face silty clay loam; 12 percent sand; 29 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; few (0.2) very fine roots throughout and few (0.2) fine roots throughout; few (0.2) very fine tubular and few (0.1) coarse dendritic tubular pores; 3 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00140; observed in pit, small
    Bw—67 to 83 centimeters (26.4 to 32.7 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face gravelly sandy clay loam; 50 percent sand; 25 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; few (0.2) very fine roots throughout; few (0.2) very fine dendritic tubular pores; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2C—83 to 127 centimeters (32.7 to 50.0 inches); variegated very gravelly loamy coarse sand; 95 percent sand; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose; few (0.2) very fine roots throughout; 55 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method.; observed in pit, small