IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): EMPIRE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1963-CA-49-006x
  • User Pedon ID: 63-CA-49-006x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1963-CA-49-006x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6349006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42027
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 38.6604996
  • Std. Longitude: -123.3482361
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 13N
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: NW/4, NE/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA097—Sonoma
  • MLRA: 4B—Coastal Redwood Belt
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA097—Sonoma County, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38123-F3—Annapolis, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAD, BFS, WLC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, isomesic Typic Tropudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - EMPIRE
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, isomesic Typic Tropudults
  • Classificaton Date - 10/21/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Soft Sedimentary Terrace. Geol formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/21/2008 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PSEUD7

    Pseudotsuga

    Douglas-fir

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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

    10

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    338

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    225

    1270

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    11.7

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    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD03144
    A11—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate coarse granular parts to moderate medium granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03145
    A12—13 to 31 centimeters (5.1 to 12.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03146
    B1t—31 to 51 centimeters (12.2 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; moderate medium angular blocky parts to massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 fine irregular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03147
    B2t—51 to 89 centimeters (20.1 to 35.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; strong medium angular blocky parts to massive; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 75 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 75 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03148
    B3t—89 to 130 centimeters (35.0 to 51.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; clay loam; 3 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4) and 3 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) mottles; massive; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 10 percent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # UCD03149
    C—130 to 130 centimeters (51.2 to 51.2 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/8), dry; very gravelly loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 10 percent clay films; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5. Lab sample # UCD03150