IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): DIAMOND SPRINGS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967-CA-58-126x
  • User Pedon ID: 67-CA-58-126x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1967-CA-58-126x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6758126
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42179
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.4666176
  • Std. Longitude: -121.2292862
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: NW/4, NE/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA115—Yuba
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA618—Yuba County, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39121-D2—Challenge, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RHB, NLC, JIM, BFS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - DIAMOND SPRINGS
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • 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
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: diorite
  • Geology: Diorite 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, 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

    QUKE

    Quercus kelloggii

    California black 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

    5

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    756

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    315

    1524

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    13.9

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    O1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD03190
    O2—2 to 10 centimeters (0.8 to 3.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD03191
    A11—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; strong medium granular parts to strong fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 21.0 medium irregular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03192
    A12—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 21.0 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03193
    B1t—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; clay loam; massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03194
    B2t—53 to 68 centimeters (20.9 to 26.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; clay loam; strong fine angular blocky parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular pores; 75 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual boundary. Lab sample # UCD03195
    B3t—68 to 99 centimeters (26.8 to 39.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual boundary. Lab sample # UCD03196
    C1—99 to 129 centimeters (39.0 to 50.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; silt loam; massive; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 medium roots throughout; 0.1 very fine tubular and 0.1 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # UCD03197
    Cr—129 to 129 centimeters (50.8 to 50.8 inches); hard; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # UCD03198