IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): BITTERCREEK
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993OR063002
  • User Pedon ID: S1993OR063002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0169
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66357
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 45.4243011
  • Std. Longitude: -117.4218674
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2S
  • Range: 43E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet west and 1320 feet south of the NE corner
  • Location Description: About 4 miles south of the town of Lostine along the Lostine River.
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR063—Wallowa
  • MLRA: 43—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR670—Wallowa County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Aquandic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - BITTERCREEK
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bittercreek
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed,
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/3/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: stratified mixed alluvium with an influence of volcanic ash in the surface horizons
  • Landform: flood plain, narrow canyon
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/3/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    25—51

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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

    2

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    1118.6

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    0

    711

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    85

    6.1

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    A—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 0.5 fine pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01018
    AC—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium prominent mottles; massive, and medium and coarse subangular blocky; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.
    2C1—48 to 99 centimeters (18.9 to 39.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; very cobbly loamy sand; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.
    2C2—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); extremely cobbly loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog.