IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): RACKERBY
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967-CA-04-010x
  • User Pedon ID: 67-CA-04-010x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6704010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42124
  • 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: 39.4958153
  • Std. Longitude: -121.3641968
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: NE/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-D3—Rackerby, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BFS, JIM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Lithic Haploxeralfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - RACKERBY
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Lithic Haploxeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 1/23/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: gabbro
  • Geology: Gabbro. Geologic Formation: Me 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
    • 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

    12

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    549

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    0

    1270

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    16.7

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; sandy loam; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00583
    A3—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; loam; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00584
    B21t—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00585
    B22t—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 75 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # UCD00586
    R—51 to 51 centimeters (20.1 to 20.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD00587