IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Polly
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019OR013501
  • User Pedon ID: S2019OR013501
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0047
  • 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: 44.1355780
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2993890
  • 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: Anthony Collora
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Calciargidic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Polly
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Calciargidic Argixerolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 10 to 54 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/2019
  • 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
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed slope alluvium and colluvium
  • Landscape: 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 75-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 Jennifer Moffitt

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/17/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Kurt Moffitt & Anthony Collora
  • Hydrology Status: wetter than natural
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    durinodes

    0—21

    10—54

    69—115

    69—115

    —21—

    —44—

    —46—

    —46—
    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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    1030

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    195

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 60 percent sand; 25 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; low excavation difficulty; many very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; many very fine irregular and common very fine dendritic tubular and many fine irregular pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-10-20 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00156; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btk—10 to 21 centimeters (3.9 to 8.3 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face, moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; 50 percent sand; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; low excavation difficulty; few very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; common very fine dendritic tubular and common fine irregular and few fine dendritic tubular pores; 4 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 4 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-125-250 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 17 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-10-20 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00157; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—21 to 54 centimeters (8.3 to 21.3 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 17 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout and moderately few fine roots throughout; few very fine dendritic tubular and common fine dendritic tubular pores; 3 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-10-20 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00158; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—54 to 69 centimeters (21.3 to 27.2 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; common very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; common very fine dendritic tubular and common fine dendritic tubular and common fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-10-20 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00159; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bkq1—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 13 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; few fine roots throughout; few medium dendritic tubular and common fine irregular pores; 70 percent coarse prominent carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments and 5 percent fine faint weakly coherent cemented durinodes; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-10-20 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00160; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bkq2—86 to 115 centimeters (33.9 to 45.3 inches);, brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, moist; gravelly sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 13 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; very few fine roots throughout; few fine irregular and few fine dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent coarse prominent carbonate masses lining pores and 5 percent fine faint weakly coherent cemented durinodes; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-10-20 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 20N00161; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small