IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ashbutte
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 789201
  • User Pedon ID: 789201
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0483
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19741
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 40.4915000
  • Std. Longitude: -121.2564722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: approximately 1,300 feet east and 700 feet north of the center of
  • Location Description: Lassen County California, about .38 miles south southeast of the summit of Red Cinder Cone
  • Map Unit: 102—Ashbutte-Vitrandic Xerorthents complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA035—Lassen
  • MLRA: 22B—Southern Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA789—Lassen Volcanic National Park, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40121-D3—Mount Harkness, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: KB, AEC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy over medial-skeletal, amorphic, frigid Typic Vitrixerands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ashbutte
  • PSC - 5 to 105 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/21/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ashbutte
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: tephra derived from volcanic rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: cinder cone
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 25.00 percent 2- to 75-millimeter 2.00 percent 250- to 600-millimeter 2.00 percent 75- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F022BI109CA Frigid Deep Coarse Sandy Cinder Cone Or Shield Volcano Slopes

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/16/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    54

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    2306

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    193

    1295

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    4.9

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.8 very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A1—5 to 14 centimeters (2.0 to 5.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; very gravelly loamy sand; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 7.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 7.0 very fine to medium interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular 5-?-75 millimeter cinders fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-5 millimeter cinders fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—14 to 28 centimeters (5.5 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loamy sand; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 very coarse roots and 6.0 medium roots and 0.7 coarse roots; 7.0 very fine to medium interstitial pores; 11 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-5 millimeter cinders fragments and 14 percent by volume nonflat subangular 5-?-75 millimeter cinders fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—28 to 39 centimeters (11.0 to 15.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loamy sand; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.8 very fine and fine roots and 6.0 very coarse roots and 7.0 medium roots and 0.8 coarse roots; 7.0 very fine to medium interstitial pores; 11 percent by volume nonflat subangular 5-?-75 millimeter cinders fragments and 14 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-5 millimeter cinders fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—39 to 60 centimeters (15.4 to 23.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loamy sand; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.8 very fine and fine roots and 7.0 very coarse roots and 3.0 medium and coarse roots; 7.0 very fine to medium interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-?-250 millimeter cinders fragments and 11 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-5 millimeter cinders fragments and 11 percent by volume nonflat subangular 5-?-75 millimeter cinders fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C3—60 to 92 centimeters (23.6 to 36.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; extremely cobbly loamy sand; 4 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.8 very fine roots and 3.0 very coarse roots and 3.0 fine and medium roots and 7.0 coarse roots; 7.0 very fine to medium interstitial pores; 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-5 millimeter cinders fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-?-250 millimeter cinders fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular 5-?-75 millimeter cinders fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C4—92 to 152 centimeters (36.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; gravel; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 3.0 fine and medium roots and 6.0 coarse roots; 7.0 very fine to medium interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-5 millimeter cinders fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-?-250 millimeter cinders fragments and 63 percent by volume nonflat subangular 5-?-75 millimeter cinders fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog.; dry when described; observed in pit, small