IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): TEMESCAL
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966-CA-04-005x
  • User Pedon ID: 66-CA-04-005x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1966-CA-04-005x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6604005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42090
  • 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: 39.3761444
  • Std. Longitude: -121.3918610
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: SE/4, NE/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: JIM, BFS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, thermic Lithic Ruptic-Xerorthentic Xerochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - TEMESCAL
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, thermic Lithic Ruptic-Xerorthentic Xerochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 1/23/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: diorite
  • Geology: Quartz Diorite 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 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • 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

    QUDO

    Quercus douglasii

    blue oak

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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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    244

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    270

    813

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    18.3

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    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD00879
    A11—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD00880
    A12—6 to 28 centimeters (2.4 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; gravelly fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 21.0 medium tubular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD00881
    C—28 to 31 centimeters (11.0 to 12.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; extremely gravelly loam; 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) coarse faint mottles; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 60 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5. Lab sample # UCD00882
    R—31 to 31 centimeters (12.2 to 12.2 inches); hard; fragments. Lab sample # UCD00883