IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Newville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985CA103003
  • User Pedon ID: 85CA103003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0854
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57120
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024
  • 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: 39.8919449
  • Std. Longitude: -122.3608322
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1800 feet W of Butte Mtn. Rd. on Sutfin Rd,; 3000 feet N on dirt road across drainage and 100 feet up slope.
  • Map Unit: NhD—Nacimiento-Newville complex, 10 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA103—Tehama
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA645—Tehama County, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39122-H3—Henleyville, California
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. C. Lindsey and L. A. Hokholt
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Newville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed Typic Haploxeralfs
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: UK-65-22
  • 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
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    36—114

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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

    9

    152

    225

    56

    16

    27

    8

    16

    4-2027

    1Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) exterior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) exterior, moist; clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04612; dry when described;. common very fine roots throughout
    1A—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) exterior, moist; clay loam; massive; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 medium interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04613; dry when described;. few very fine roots throughout
    1BAt—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) exterior, moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219385; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219385
    1Bt1—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) exterior, moist; clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219386; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219386
    1Bt2—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) exterior, moist; clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219387; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219387
    CBtk—81 to 94 centimeters (31.9 to 37.0 inches); 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) exterior and 40 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) exterior and 20 percent light gray (5Y 7/2) exterior, 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior and 50 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior and olive (5Y 5/3) crushed, moist; clay; 11 percent light gray (5Y 7/2) coarse distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine roots throughout; common coarse distinct 5Y72 mottles; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219388; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219388
    CBtk—94 to 114 centimeters (37.0 to 44.9 inches); 80 percent light gray (5Y 7/2) exterior and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) exterior, 80 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) exterior and 20 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; gravelly silty clay loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described;. Color of moist clay films; weak rock structure.; many clay films surface features on rock fragments; few very fine roots throughout; common medium distinct 7.5YR56 mottles; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219389; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219389
    1C—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); 50 percent light gray (5Y 7/2) exterior and 50 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) exterior, 50 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) exterior and 50 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) exterior, moist; weathered bedrock; 15 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog.; moist when described;. Silitstone that is soft when moist.; few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features on rock fragments; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219390; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219390