IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): AIKEN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972-CA-04-045x
  • User Pedon ID: 72-CA-04-045x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7204045
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42247
  • 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: 39.8380890
  • Std. Longitude: -121.4877167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: SE/4, NE/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-G4—Pulga, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JIM, PAT, FH, WRA
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, oxidic, mesic Xeric Haplohumults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - AIKEN
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, oxidic, mesic Xeric Haplohumults
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: gabbro
  • Geology: Gabbro 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, grassland
  • 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

    60

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    1143

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    315

    1651

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    10

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    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD02677
    A11—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; strong very fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD02678
    A12—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dry; clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD02679
    B1—28 to 39 centimeters (11.0 to 15.4 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dry; gravelly clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD02680
    B2t—39 to 56 centimeters (15.4 to 22.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD02681
    B3t—56 to 87 centimeters (22.0 to 34.3 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry; clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD02682
    Cr—87 to 100 centimeters (34.3 to 39.4 inches); 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # UCD02683