IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): OLYMPIC
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972-CA-04-047x
  • User Pedon ID: 72-CA-04-047x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7204047
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42248
  • 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: 39.8953018
  • Std. Longitude: -121.5767136
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, NN/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-H5—Stirling City, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JIM, WRA, FWH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, mesic Xeric Palehumults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - OLYMPIC
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed, mesic Xeric Palehumults
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • 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. Geologic Formation: M 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

    10

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    981

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    135

    1651

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    12.8

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    O1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD04127
    A1—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; coarse sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD04128
    B1t—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry; sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 fine irregular pores; 10 percent clay films between sand grains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD04129
    B21t—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8), reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), dry; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD04130
    B22t—56 to 117 centimeters (22.0 to 46.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8), reddish yellow (5YR 6/8), dry; clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD04131
    B23t—117 to 170 centimeters (46.1 to 66.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8), reddish yellow (5YR 6/8), dry; clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # UCD04132
    C—170 to 208 centimeters (66.9 to 81.9 inches);, reddish yellow (5YR 6/8), dry; clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # UCD04133