IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): NEWTOWN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972-CA-45-175x
  • User Pedon ID: 72-CA-45-175x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1972-CA-45-175x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7245175
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42257
  • 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: 40.4050789
  • Std. Longitude: -122.4091110
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: SE/4, SE/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA089—Shasta
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA607—Shasta County Area, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40122-D4—Olinda, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JIM, TAK, SBJ
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - NEWTOWN
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Weakly Consolidated Conglomera 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUDO

    Quercus douglasii

    blue 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

    40

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    213

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    180

    762

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    16.7

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    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03748
    A3—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; extremely gravelly sandy clay loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 60 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03749
    B2t—46 to 89 centimeters (18.1 to 35.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; 3 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium distinct and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium distinct and 3 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; clay films on all faces of peds and clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual boundary. Lab sample # UCD03750. continuous - phpvsfiid 662971; continuous - phpvsfiid 662972; continuous - phpvsfiid 662971; continuous - phpvsfiid 662972
    B3t—89 to 165 centimeters (35.0 to 65.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; loam; 3 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; gradual boundary. Lab sample # UCD03751. continuous - phpvsfiid 662973; continuous - phpvsfiid 662973
    C1—165 to 216 centimeters (65.0 to 85.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; silty clay loam; 3 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) medium distinct mottles; massive; very hard, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # UCD03752