IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mariposa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967-CA-58-123x
  • User Pedon ID: 67-CA-58-123x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1967-CA-58-123x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6758123
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42176
  • Print Date: 9/23/2024

    • 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: 39.4886856
  • Std. Longitude: -121.3125916
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: NN/4, SW/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA007—Butte
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • 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: WLC, BFS, JIM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Xeric Haplohumults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mariposa
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/11/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SITES
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, oxidic, mesic Xeric Haplohumults
  • Classificaton Date - 1/9/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: schist, unspecified
  • Geology: Schist. Geologic Formation: Ca formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/9/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • 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

    QUKE

    Quercus kelloggii

    California black oak

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

    bedrock, paralithic

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    91 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—10

    10—91

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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

    22

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    945

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    90

    1651

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    10

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01634
    A1—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly silty clay loam; 19 percent sand; 54 percent silt; 27 percent clay; strong medium granular parts to strong fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 roots throughout; 21.0 medium irregular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01635
    A2—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly clay loam; 21 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 33 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 21.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01636
    AB—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry; gravelly clay loam; 20 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 32 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 fine irregular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01637
    Bt1—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), dry; gravelly silty clay; 16 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 40 percent clay; massive; friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01638
    Bt2—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/8), dry; gravelly clay; 17 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 49 percent clay; massive; friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular pores; 30 percent clay films; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7. Lab sample # UCD01639
    Cr—91 centimeters (35.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01640