IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): CHEROTABLE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 551X
  • User Pedon ID: 551X
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 551X
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0260
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14534
  • Print Date: 1/10/2025

    • 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: 39.5985306
  • Std. Longitude: -121.5414861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20 N.
  • Range: 4 E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: approximately 660 feet west and 140 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: about 5 miles north of Oroville, California
  • Map Unit: 346—Cherotable-Elsey , 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-E5—Oroville, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Brad Rust
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, parasesquic, thermic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - CHEROTABLE
  • PSC - 5 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cherotable
  • Classificaton Date - 10/19/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy alluvium derived from basalt
  • Landform: lava plateau
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 6
  • Bedrock: slight weathered basalt at 114cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Lovejoy Basalt formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter basalt,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/19/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 155-56
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Plant Association Name: grass
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGROP2

    AMSIN

    BRHOH

    ERODI

    Agropyron

    Amsinckia

    Bromus hordeaceus ssp. hordeaceus

    Erodium

    wheatgrass

    fiddleneck

    soft brome

    stork's bill

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    114 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—5

    5—114

    114—

    2—5—8

    89—106—115

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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

    5

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    412

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    200

    889

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    250

    16

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    17

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    Oroville

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; loam; 21 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 medium interstitial and 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; negative to alpha-alpha dipyridyl; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 1P1551; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 medium interstitial and 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 15 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; negative to alpha-alpha dipyridyl; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 1P1552; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 108869; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 108869
    Bt2—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 0.5 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 medium interstitial and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; negative to alpha-alpha dipyridyl; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 1P1553; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 108870; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 108870
    Bt3—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; gravelly clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 medium roots between peds and 0.5 fine roots between peds; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; negative to alpha-alpha dipyridyl; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 1P1554; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 108871; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 108871
    Bt4—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; cobbly clay loam; 31 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments; negative to alpha-alpha dipyridyl; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 1P1555; dry when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 108872; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 108872
    Bt5—76 to 114 centimeters (29.9 to 44.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; very cobbly clay; 48 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 0.8 fine tubular pores; 45 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-?-250 millimeter basalt fragments; negative to alpha-alpha dipyridyl; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 1P1556; dry when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 108873; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 108873
    R—114 centimeters (44.9 inches); bedrock; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments.; observed in pit, small