IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975-CA-04-052x
  • User Pedon ID: 75-CA-04-052x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7504052
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42311
  • Print Date: 10/31/2024

    • 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: 39.4489784
  • Std. Longitude: -121.3734818
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: SE/4, NE/4
  • Map Unit: 577—Parkshill-Flanly-Hurleton , 2 to 15 percent slopes
  • 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-D3—Rackerby, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JIM, VB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, superactive, thermic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • PSC - 41 to 72 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/16/2017
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - WYANDOTTE
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: diorite
  • Geology: Quartz Diorite formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/27/2009 (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, lithic

    strongly coherent

    133 - 158

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

    argillic horizon

    41—72

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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

    12

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    418

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    135

    1016

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    16.7

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # UCD01528
    A—3 to 21 centimeters (1.2 to 8.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01529
    Bt1—21 to 41 centimeters (8.3 to 16.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; sandy loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on surfaces along pores and 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01530
    Bt2—41 to 59 centimeters (16.1 to 23.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine irregular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on surfaces along pores and 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01531
    Bt3—59 to 72 centimeters (23.2 to 28.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 very fine irregular and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01532
    C1—72 to 89 centimeters (28.3 to 35.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; coarse sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to massive; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01533
    C2—89 to 133 centimeters (35.0 to 52.4 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; coarse sandy loam; weak medium granular parts to massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # UCD01534
    R—133 to 133 centimeters (52.4 to 52.4 inches); hard; fragments. Lab sample # UCD01535