IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): POWDERHOUSE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 709-H
  • User Pedon ID: 97CA612002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 709-H
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0309
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68781
  • 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: 39.6899722
  • Std. Longitude: -121.1070278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21 N
  • Range: 8 E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: approximately 1900 feet west and 1850 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: approximately 2 miles south from Camel Peak Lookout
  • Map Unit: 925—Powderhouse-McNair-Greenwell , 30 to 50 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-F1—American House, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DWB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, glassy, frigid Humic Haploxerands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - POWDERHOUSE
  • PSC - 0 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - McCarthy
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/1996
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: s slight weathered volcanic breccia, unspecified with <10
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 155-176
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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

    ABCO

    ARPA6

    ARPA6

    CADE27

    CASE8

    CASTA2

    CHIMA

    CHUM

    LIDE3

    PILA

    PIPO

    PSME

    QUKE

    QUTU2

    RIBES

    RINE

    RIRO

    SYMPH

    Abies concolor

    Arctostaphylos patula

    Arctostaphylos patula

    Calocedrus decurrens

    Castanopsis sempervirens

    Castanopsis

    Chimaphila

    Chimaphila umbellata

    Lithocarpus densiflorus

    Pinus lambertiana

    Pinus ponderosa

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Quercus kelloggii

    Quercus turbinella

    Ribes

    Ribes nevadense

    Ribes roezlii

    Symphoricarpos

    white fir

    greenleaf manzanita

    greenleaf manzanita

    incense cedar

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    chinkapin

    prince's pine

    pipsissewa

    tanoak

    sugar pine

    ponderosa pine

    Douglas-fir

    California black oak

    Sonoran scrub oak

    currant

    Sierra currant

    Sierra gooseberry

    snowberry

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

    bedrock, paralithic

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

    andic soil properties

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—91

    5—28

    28—69

    91—208

    —91—

    —23—

    —41—

    —17—
    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

    31

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    1463

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    310

    2032

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    CA8606

    Strawberry Valley

    TAPS
    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A1—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), black (10YR 2/1), moist; medial sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P1964; moist when described;
    A2—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; medial sandy loam; 12 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P1965; moist when described;
    Bw—28 to 69 centimeters (11.0 to 27.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very cobbly medial sandy loam; 14 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium and coarse roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 30 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter andesite fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P1966; moist when described;
    C—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly medial coarse sandy loam; 12 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium and coarse roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume well rounded 75-162-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 50 percent by volume well rounded 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P1967; moist when described;
    Cr—91 to 208 centimeters (35.8 to 81.9 inches); bedrock; 0.1 very fine and fine roots around fragments; 25 percent by volume well rounded 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 40 percent by volume well rounded 75-162-250 millimeter andesite fragments.