IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brubeck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981CA035003
  • User Pedon ID: 81CA035003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0695
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49539
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 40.4901543
  • Std. Longitude: -120.1524200
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30N
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 76 meters E and 853 meters N of the NW corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA035—Lassen

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Borchard, S. Slusser, W. Lindsey, and T. Cook
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aridic Haploxererts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brubeck
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brubeck
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Entic Chromoxerert
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 1.45 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1981 (actual site observation 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    3

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    1A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; very cobbly silty clay; strong very fine granular structure; hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 250-425-600 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 600-?-? millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04162. Few pressure faces.; common very fine and fine roots
    1A12—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silty clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; soft, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; very slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04163. Common intersecting slickensides; vertical cracks 10 to 15 mm.; many very fine and fine roots; few fine roots
    1A13—15 to 58 centimeters (5.9 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silty clay; strong medium and coarse prismatic, and strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04164. Common intersecting slickensides.; many intersecting slickensides surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots; few medium roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 215065; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 215065
    1A14CA—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silty clay; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04165. Hard basalt.; many intersecting slickensides surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 215066; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 215066
    1R—81 centimeters (31.9 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments.