The soils formed in mixed loess and volcanic ash over a duripan. The climate is characterized by cool moist winters and hot dry summers. The mean annual precipitation is 9 to 12 inches. These are the Bakeoven soils in the innermound position. Bakeoven soils are less than 12 inches deep to bedrock and lack duripans.
Principal use is for production of grain crops.
Other uses are hay, pasture, and livestock grazing. Native vegetation is mainly bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue, Sandberg bluegrass and buckwheat. The soils are moderately extensive. Wasco County, Oregon, 1975. In some pedons, the Bw and Bk horizons may have few to common clay films but a ratio of clay in the illuvial horizon to that in the eluvial horizon of less than 1.2.