IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Auburn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959CA005007
  • User Pedon ID: S1959CA005007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959CA005007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38133
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • 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: 38.3970300
  • Std. Longitude: -120.9216100
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 1/4 mile west and 100 feet north of the SE corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA005—Amador
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA628—Amador Area, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Kennedy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, thermic Ruptic-Lithic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Auburn
  • PSC - 25 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Auburn
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    QUERC

    Quercus

    oak

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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

    10

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    58

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    180

    610

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    A11—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23590
    A12—4 to 23 centimeters (1.6 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry; silt loam; slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 21.0 medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine and 21.0 medium pores; 10 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23591. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 186768; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 186768
    B2—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/8), dry; silt loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 21.0 medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine and 21.0 medium pores; 10 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A23592. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 186769; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 186769
    CR—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches);, very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; 1.0 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A23593. Very pale brown (10YR 7/4) partially weathered amphibolite schist with reddish brown colloidal staining on fracture planes and a few roots in cracks; when moist can be scratched with fingernail.