IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Polly
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2018OR013002
  • User Pedon ID: S2018OR013002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2018OR013002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0044
  • User Project ID: 2018-1RED-Soil-Mositure
  • Project Name: SPECIAL - U of I Soil Moisture - 1-RED
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 44.1355200
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2993150
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR013—Crook
  • MLRA: 10—Central Rocky and Blue Mountain Foothills
  • Regional Office: 1—Portland, OR
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-RED—Redmond, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44120-B3—Prairie Hill, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kurt Moffitt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Calcidic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Polly
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Calcidic Haploxerolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/14/2018
  • Classifier - Kurt Moffitt
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Dominant - tree
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Secondary - annual grass
  • Litter Cover % - 72
  • Residue Description - Juniper litter and grass litter
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed alluvium and colluvium
  • Landscape: of the Blue and Ochoco Mountains foothills
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 76-millimeter rhyolite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R010XY120OR Loamy Fan 9-12 PZ May 14 2018 Kurt Moffitt

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/14/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Kurt Moffitt
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: drier than natural
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Kind of Land: rangeland
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    JUOC

    BRTE

    POSE

    PSSPS

    ALDE

    ARTRW8

    ELEL5

    KOMA

    ACHY

    ACTH7

    FEID

    PHHO

    CHVI8

    ACMI2

    Juniperus occidentalis

    Bromus tectorum

    Poa secunda

    Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata

    Alyssum desertorum

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Elymus elymoides

    Koeleria macrantha

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Achnatherum thurberianum

    Festuca idahoensis

    Phlox hoodii

    Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

    Achillea millefolium

    western juniper

    cheatgrass

    Sandberg bluegrass

    bluebunch wheatgrass

    desert madwort

    Wyoming big sagebrush

    squirreltail

    prairie Junegrass

    Indian ricegrass

    Thurber's needlegrass

    Idaho fescue

    spiny phlox

    yellow rabbitbrush

    common yarrow

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

    mollic epipedon

    secondary carbonates

    secondary carbonates

    0—41

    0—22

    70—118

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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

    4

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    1059

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    195

    280

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, moist; gravelly clay loam; 40 percent sand; 30 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 0.5 fine dendritic tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-15-20 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00145; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Btk—8 to 22 centimeters (3.1 to 8.7 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 55 percent sand; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate thick platy structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 1.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 0.5 medium dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-76 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00146; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—22 to 41 centimeters (8.7 to 16.1 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.2 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 0.5 medium dendritic tubular pores; 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-76 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00147; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—41 to 70 centimeters (16.1 to 27.6 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/2) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.2 very fine roots throughout and 0.3 medium roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 0.3 very fine dendritic tubular and 0.5 medium dendritic tubular pores; ; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-76 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; 40 percent krotovinas (volume percent); noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00148; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bkq—70 to 94 centimeters (27.6 to 37.0 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.3 fine roots throughout; 0.3 fine dendritic tubular and 0.4 fine irregular pores; 5 percent coarse distinct carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments and 5 percent fine distinct carbonate masses on surfaces along root channels and 2 percent very fine faint silica masses in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-76 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00149; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk—94 to 118 centimeters (37.0 to 46.5 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 12 percent clay; single grain, and weak coarse subangular blocky; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; 0.1 medium dendritic tubular and 0.4 fine irregular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-76 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-15-20 millimeter rhyolite fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 20N00150; dry when described; observed in pit, small