IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Palls
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982CA101010
  • User Pedon ID: 82CA101010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0289
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52531
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 39.1850014
  • Std. Longitude: -121.8727798
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 229 meters south and 716 meters east of NW corner
  • Location Description: Sutter County.
  • State: California
  • County: CA101—Sutter
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. J. Lytle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, thermic Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Palls
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Palls
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, thermic Mollic Haploxeralf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1982
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 1.45 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1982 (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

    9

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    67

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    40

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    16

    25

    7

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    1A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; stony sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P01291. 2% boulders.; many very fine roots
    1A12—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; stony sandy loam; massive; extremely hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P01292. 2% boulders.; many very fine roots
    1B21t—20 to 53 centimeters (7.9 to 20.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 37 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P01293. common clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; common very fine roots
    1B22t—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P01294. many clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores
    1B23t—74 to 79 centimeters (29.1 to 31.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; gravelly sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P01295
    1R—79 to 89 centimeters (31.1 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior unknown texture; fragments. Lab sample # 83P01296. Texture is hard extrusive igneous rock.