IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Auburn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990CA115001
  • User Pedon ID: 90CA115001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0411
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63457
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 39.2694435
  • Std. Longitude: -121.3022232
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet N and 2200 feet W of SE 1/4 corner
  • Location Description: Upper rainfall simulator site, 0.4 mile west of Sierra foothill field station HQ on farm road, then 2.2 miles NE on farm road to site. Oregon House 7.5 min quad.
  • State: California
  • County: CA115—Yuba

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B.R. and K.S.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Ruptic-Lithic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Auburn
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Auburn
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, oxidic, thermic Ruptic-Lithic Xerochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    13

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    419

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; loam; strong very coarse platy structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02375. many very fine roots
    AB—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02376. common very fine roots
    Bt1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02377. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine roots
    Bt2—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry; gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02378. few very fine roots
    R—48 centimeters (18.9 inches); fragments. hard rock