IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dunstone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 300W
  • User Pedon ID: 300W
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 300W
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0262
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14536
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.4723574
  • Std. Longitude: -121.4400992
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: approximately 594 meters east and 625 meters north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Gilbert Ranch, approximately 213 meters from the trail crossing North Huncut Creek heading in a southeastly direction and approximately 61 meters northeast of the trail.
  • Map Unit: 550—Dunstone-loafercreek complex, dry, 1 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: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Typic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dunstone (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 0 to 25 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/21/2015
  • Classifier - Jennifer Wood
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Auburn tax
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 7/26/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: foothills
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent greenstone at 25cm
  • Geology: Smartville Metavolcanics formation of the Western Jurassic Terrane group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/26/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 155-198
  • Plant Association Name: Blue Oak-Foothill Pine/Grasses
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 35
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUAG

    QUDO

    Quercus agrifolia

    Quercus douglasii

    California live oak

    blue oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    25 - 46

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—3

    13—25

    25—46

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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

    9

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    265

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    256

    838

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    260

    16

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); variegated light brown (7.5YR 6/4) exterior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; loam; 14 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 6.0 very fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine tubular and 6.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent fine irregular yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry, iron depletions on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent by volume subangular greenstone fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P1563; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    BAt—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); variegated light brown (7.5YR 6/4) exterior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; loam; 20 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 6.0 very fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine tubular and 6.0 fine tubular pores; on surfaces along root channels and 3 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; irregular yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry, iron depletions on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent by volume subangular greenstone fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P1564; dry when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 107348; patchy - phpvsfiid 107348
    Bt—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) exterior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) exterior, moist; loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 6.0 very fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 6.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume subangular greenstone fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P1565; dry when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 107350; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 107350
    Cr—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; fragments.; observed in pit, small