IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): PENTZ
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972-CA-04-030x
  • User Pedon ID: 72-CA-04-030x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7204030
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42235
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 39.6417351
  • Std. Longitude: -121.6625443
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, SE/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-F6—Hamlin Canyon, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BW, JIM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Lithic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - PENTZ
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Lithic Haploxeralfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: tuff, unspecified
  • Geology: Tuff Breccia. Geologic Formati formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/25/2009 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    23 - 50

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

    paralithic contact

    23—50

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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

    3

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    79

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    180

    686

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    17.2

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 15 percent clay; massive; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 11 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-50-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01518
    B2t—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; 50 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 24 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 29 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-50-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01519
    Cr—23 to 50 centimeters (9.1 to 19.7 inches); hard, moderately coherent; fragments. Lab sample # UCD01520