IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SND
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 706-F
  • User Pedon ID: 95CA612029
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 706-F
  • User Site Association ID: 5557
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 706
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 96P0143
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68221
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.5380751
  • Std. Longitude: -121.2154886
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19 N
  • Range: 7 E
  • Section: 5
  • Map Unit: 705—Typic Haploxeralfs, magnesic-Earlal-Cerpone-Rock outcrop complex, 50 to 80 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA007—Butte
  • MLRA: 22—Sierra Nevada Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA612—Butte Area, California, Parts of Butte and Plumas Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39121-E2—Clipper Mills, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DWB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, magnesic, mesic Andic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Woodleaftax
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Bedrock: serpentinite
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/16/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 205-128
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARBUT

    ARPA6

    ARPA6

    CADE27

    HEAR5

    PIPO

    PSME

    QUCH2

    STIPA

    UMCA

    Arbutus

    Arctostaphylos patula

    Arctostaphylos patula

    Calocedrus decurrens

    Heteromeles arbutifolia

    Pinus ponderosa

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Quercus chrysolepis

    Stipa

    Umbellularia californica

    madrone

    greenleaf manzanita

    greenleaf manzanita

    incense cedar

    toyon

    ponderosa pine

    Douglas-fir

    canyon live oak

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    California laurel

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    71 - 208

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    lithic contact

    76—208

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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

    54

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    853

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    200

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments.
    A—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; loam; 16 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P1235
    Bw1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly loam; 16 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P1236
    Bw2—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist; very cobbly loam; 20 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P1237
    2Bt1—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; extremely cobbly clay; 54 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 50 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P1238
    2R—76 to 208 centimeters (29.9 to 81.9 inches); 1.0 fine and medium roots around fragments; fragments.