IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976-CA-04-054x
  • User Pedon ID: 76-CA-04-054x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1976-CA-04-054x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7604054
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42327
  • 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: 39.4487648
  • Std. Longitude: -121.3966751
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, NE/4
  • Map Unit: 584—Flanly-Swedesflat-Rackerby , 15 to 30 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-D4—Bangor, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JIM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, subactive, 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 - 31 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/16/2017
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - WYANDOTTE
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, thermic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 3/2/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/2/2009 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUWI2

    Quercus wislizeni

    interior live oak

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

    argillic horizon

    31—64

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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

    25

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    366

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    180

    940

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    16.7

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01306
    A1—3 to 16 centimeters (1.2 to 6.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; coarse sandy loam; moderate medium granular parts to moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01307
    A2—16 to 31 centimeters (6.3 to 12.2 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; soft, friable; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01308
    Bt1—31 to 46 centimeters (12.2 to 18.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on top faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01309
    Bt2—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores and 30 percent clay films on top faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01310
    C1&B2t—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 7/6), reddish yellow (5YR 7/8), moist; clay; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 medium roots in cracks; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # UCD01311
    C2r&B3t—89 to 160 centimeters (35.0 to 63.0 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist; sand; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 medium roots in cracks; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # UCD01312