IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SOBRANTE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966-CA-04-004x
  • User Pedon ID: 66-CA-04-004x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6604004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42089
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 39.4193230
  • Std. Longitude: -121.4249344
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, NW/4
  • 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: BFS, JIM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SOBRANTE
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 1/23/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: metavolcanics
  • Geology: Greenstone. Geologic Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/23/2009 (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
    • 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

    4

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    175

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    270

    737

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    17.2

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    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD04355
    A1—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; loam; strong medium granular structure; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 roots throughout; 21.0 medium irregular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD04356
    A3—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD04357
    B1t—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); 5YR 5/ (5YR 5/),, 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 50 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; massive parts to weak coarse subangular blocky; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD04358
    B2t—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 75 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD04359
    Cr—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; weak coarse angular blocky structure; hard; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD04360
    R—84 to 84 centimeters (33.1 to 33.1 inches); hard; fragments. Lab sample # UCD04361