IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): LOAFERCREEK
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 300J
  • User Pedon ID: 300J
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0263
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14537
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.4449639
  • Std. Longitude: -121.4367972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: approximately 2350 feet east and 2100 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: about 3.3 miles southeast of Wyandotte
  • Map Unit: 567—Dunstone-Loafercreek-Argonaut taxadjunct , 2 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA007—Butte
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA612—Butte Area, California, Parts of Butte and Plumas Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39121-D4—Bangor, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Felix J. Panlasigui Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - LOAFERCREEK
  • PSC - 10 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sobrante tax
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from metavolcanics
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Bedrock: metavolcanics at 74cm
  • Geology: Smartville Metavolcanics formation of the Western Jurassic Terrane group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 155-198
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 38
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    74 - 81

    - 7 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—10

    10—74

    74—81

    —10—

    —64—

    —7—
    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

    8

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    201

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    152

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; loam; 15 percent clay; strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 7.0 very fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine tubular and 7.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P1566
    BA—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; loam; 20 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine tubular and 7.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-75 millimeter metavolcanics fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P1567
    BAt—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; loam; 25 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; 7.0 very fine tubular and 7.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 5 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-75 millimeter metavolcanics fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P1568. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 207879; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 207939; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 207879; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 207939
    Bt1—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; clay loam; 29 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular and 0.8 medium tubular and 7.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-75 millimeter metavolcanics fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P1569. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 207880; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 207880
    Bt2—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; clay loam; 35 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 medium tubular and 7.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P1570. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 207881; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 207881
    Cr—74 to 81 centimeters (29.1 to 31.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.