IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): TIMBERISLAND
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998CA063004
  • User Pedon ID: 98CA063004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1998CA063004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0289
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10560
  • 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: 39.6986656
  • Std. Longitude: -121.0798035
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: About 1.9 miles Southeast of Camel Peak Lookout, approximately 700 feet East and 900 feet South of the Northwest corner
  • Location Description: About 1.9 miles Southeast of Camel Peak Lookout.
  • State: California
  • County: CA063—Plumas
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • 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, RV
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, amorphic, mesic Humic Haploxerands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - TIMBERISLAND
  • PSC - 4 to 105 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Timberisland
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal, amorphic, mesic Humic Haploxerand
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/1998
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: lava plateau
  • Landform: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: h slight weathered basalt with =>200
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/7/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 155-176
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other 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

    AMUT

    ARPA6

    CECO

    LIDE

    PIMA

    PIPO

    QUBE5

    QUKE

    QUTU2

    Abies concolor

    Amelanchier utahensis

    Arctostaphylos patula

    Ceanothus cordulatus

    Libocedrus decurrens

    Picea mariana

    Pinus ponderosa

    Quercus berberidifolia

    Quercus kelloggii

    Quercus turbinella

    white fir

    Utah serviceberry

    greenleaf manzanita

    whitethorn ceanothus

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    black spruce

    ponderosa pine

    scrub oak

    California black oak

    Sonoran scrub oak

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

    umbric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    4—29

    4—29

    29—126

    126—0

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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

    8

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    1548

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    28

    1955

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    10

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    Oe—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); fragments. Litter.
    A1—4 to 11 centimeters (1.6 to 4.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), black (10YR 2/1), moist; sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to single grain; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01761. Extremely hydrophobic, light bulk density; 10.0 NaF pH.
    A2—11 to 29 centimeters (4.3 to 11.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to single grain; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01762. Extremely hydrophobic, light bulk density, 11.7 NaF.
    Bw1—29 to 47 centimeters (11.4 to 18.5 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to single grain; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01763. Highly hydrophobic, light bulk density; 11.7 NaF pH.
    Bw2—47 to 83 centimeters (18.5 to 32.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; extremely cobbly fine sandy loam; 16 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 70 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P01764. Light bulk density; 11.5 NaF pH.
    Bw3—83 to 126 centimeters (32.7 to 49.6 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4), dusky red (2.5YR 3/2), moist; extremely cobbly sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 80 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 98P01765. 11.0 NaF pH.
    R—126 centimeters (49.6 inches); fragments. Lithic basalt.