IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wickiser
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2018OR013005
  • User Pedon ID: S2018OR013005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2018OR013005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0046
  • User Project ID: 2018-1RED-Soil-Mositure
  • Project Name: SPECIAL - U of I Soil Moisture - 1-RED
  • 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: 44.1897700
  • Std. Longitude: -120.3528820
  • 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, smectitic, frigid Vertic Palexerolls
  • 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 - Wickiser
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, frigid Vertic Palexerolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2018
  • Classifier - Kurt Moffitt
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Dominant - perennial grass
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Secondary - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Litter Cover % - 63
  • Residue Description - grass litter
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum with an influence of volcanic ash in the surface
  • Landscape: of the Blue and Ochoco Mountains foothills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 3.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 75-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
    R010XB085OR JD Mountain North 12-16 PZ Jun 19 2018 Kurt Moffitt

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/17/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Kurt Moffitt
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 23
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    2Btkss

    87

    101

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    Anthony Collora

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    7.8
    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    2Btkss

    87

    101

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    2Btkss

    87

    101

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PSSPS

    FEID

    POSE

    BRTE

    LUAR3

    ELEL5

    DRVE2

    GADI2

    KOMA

    SENEC

    AGGL

    ERHE2

    ARTRV

    Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata

    Festuca idahoensis

    Poa secunda

    Bromus tectorum

    Lupinus argenteus

    Elymus elymoides

    Draba verna

    Gayophytum diffusum

    Koeleria macrantha

    Senecio

    Agoseris glauca

    Eriogonum heracleoides

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana

    bluebunch wheatgrass

    Idaho fescue

    Sandberg bluegrass

    cheatgrass

    silvery lupine

    squirreltail

    spring draba

    spreading groundsmoke

    prairie Junegrass

    ragwort

    pale agoseris

    parsnipflower buckwheat

    mountain big sagebrush

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

    mollic epipedon

    volcanic glass

    argillic horizon

    abrupt textural change

    slickensides

    secondary carbonates

    0—23

    0—23

    23—101

    23—23

    51—101

    87—101

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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

    20

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    1313

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    330

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    A1—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; ashy loam; 50 percent sand; 20 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.8 very fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-15-20 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—7 to 23 centimeters (2.8 to 9.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; gravelly ashy loam; 45 percent sand; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.2 fine roots throughout; 0.4 very fine dendritic tubular and 0.2 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 20-50-75 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-15-20 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00154; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; cobbly clay; 25 percent sand; 50 percent clay; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium faint irregular mottles; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.3 very fine roots throughout; 0.2 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 30 percent prominent pressure faces on all faces of peds and 60 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-35-75 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-150-250 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; very moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Btss—51 to 87 centimeters (20.1 to 34.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) broken face, dusky red (10R 3/4) broken face, moist; clay; 25 percent sand; 58 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.2 very fine roots throughout; 0.2 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 20 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds and 40 percent prominent pressure faces on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-15-20 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 20N00155; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Btkss—87 to 101 centimeters (34.3 to 39.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) broken face, dusky red (10R 3/4) broken face, moist; clay; 25 percent sand; 55 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 0.2 fine irregular and 0.1 fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds and 20 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds and 40 percent prominent pressure faces on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses with sharp boundaries on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-15-20 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small