IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fivebit
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994OR061005
  • User Pedon ID: S1994OR061005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0796
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66969
  • Print Date: 4/18/2025

    • 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: 45.3458328
  • Std. Longitude: -118.4333344
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR061—Union
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR625—Union County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Ottersburg A. Kriger
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fivebit
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Dystrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/17/1994
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/17/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; gravelly loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine and medium continuous tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06273. Surface rock fragments: 20% GR 2% CB 1% ST 1% BY
    Bw—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry; very gravelly loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium continuous tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter basalt fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06274
    2Bw—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; extremely cobbly loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter basalt fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 94P06275
    2R—43 to 47 centimeters (16.9 to 18.5 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 94P06276