IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): PARROTT
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 439-24-17
  • User Pedon ID: 439-24-17
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0069
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61174
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 39.8034802
  • Std. Longitude: -122.0241255
  • Datum: WGS84
  • PLSS Details: 2,200 feet north and 1,700 feet east of the intersection T.22N. and T.23 N. and R.1W. and R.2W.
  • Location Description: about 3.8 miles northeast of Nord
  • Map Unit: 200—Parrott silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • State: California
  • County: CA007—Butte
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA612—Butte Area, California, Parts of Butte and Plumas Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39122-G1—Foster Island, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SJB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic Fluventic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - PARROTT
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - HORST
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: river alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for very brief periods begining in dec
  • Geology: Natural Levee And Channel Deposits formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 439-24
  • Plant Association Name: Walnuts
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—20

    20—225

    —20—

    —205—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    46

    —

    559

    —

    245

    17

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    A1—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silt loam; 4 percent sand; 74 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 6.0 very fine roots; 8.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A2—4 to 20 centimeters (1.6 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; 10 percent sand; 67 percent silt; 23 percent clay; moderate fine and medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 very fine roots; 6.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.
    Bw1—20 to 52 centimeters (7.9 to 20.5 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; 14 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.8 very fine and fine roots; 6.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 8 percent silt coats on surfaces along pores; 1 percent medium dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry, manganese masses and 25 percent medium brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.
    Bw2—52 to 95 centimeters (20.5 to 37.4 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; 11 percent sand; 68 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.8 very fine roots; 6.0 very fine tubular and 4.0 fine tubular pores; 8 percent silt coats on surfaces along pores; 10 percent medium brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.
    Bw3—95 to 125 centimeters (37.4 to 49.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; 10 percent sand; 69 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.8 very fine and fine roots; 6.0 very fine tubular and 0.4 fine tubular pores; 8 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, silt coats on surfaces along pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.
    Bw4—125 to 160 centimeters (49.2 to 63.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 11 percent sand; 70 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.8 fine roots; 6.0 very fine tubular and 0.4 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.
    C—160 to 225 centimeters (63.0 to 88.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; silt loam; 9 percent sand; 74 percent silt; 17 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.8 fine roots; 6.0 very fine tubular and 0.4 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.