IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Meadowridge
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09OR069002
  • User Pedon ID: S09OR069002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 09OR069002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0356
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43402
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 45.0543060
  • Std. Longitude: -120.4122238
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6
  • Range: 19
  • Section: 11
  • Location Description: located on Stanley Ranch area near the town of Fossil
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-RED—Redmond, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ryan Miebach & Jericho Winter
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Vitritorrandic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Meadowridge
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Vitritorrandic Argixerolls
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: ash and loess over colluvium over residuum
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: basalt at 132cm
  • Geology: Columbia River Basalt group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/23/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Current Air Temp - 29
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACHIL

    ACTH7

    ARTRT

    FEID

    JUOC

    PSSP6

    Achillea

    Achnatherum thurberianum

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata

    Festuca idahoensis

    Juniperus occidentalis

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    yarrow

    Thurber's needlegrass

    basin big sagebrush

    Idaho fescue

    western juniper

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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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

    39

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    697.4

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    12

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    A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; ashy silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01928; dry when described;
    A2—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; ashy silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01929; dry when described;
    Bt—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; ashy silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent by volume indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01930; dry when described;
    2Bk1—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent coarse spherical very strongly coherent cemented olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) durinodes with sharp boundaries in matrix and 2 percent fine distinct spherical noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01931; dry when described;
    2Bk2—89 to 132 centimeters (35.0 to 52.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist; very cobbly loam; 19 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent fine distinct spherical noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume indurated 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N01932; dry when described;
    3Cr—132 centimeters (52.0 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments.