IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aiken
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959CA005012
  • User Pedon ID: S1959CA005012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959CA005012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3076
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38205
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.5047226
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5455551
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: On the Allen Ranch on the road east of Fiddletown to Highway 88, 100 yards west of the cattle chute and 100 feet south of the road in the SW corner of the NE1/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA005—Amador
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA628—Amador Area, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Kennedy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, sesquic, mesic Typic Palexerults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Aiken
  • PSC - 51 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/30/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Aiken
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

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

    BELE

    PTERI

    Betula lenta

    Pteridium

    sweet birch

    brackenfern

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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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    1123

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    0

    1092

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    O1—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A24067. Partially decomposed forest litter.
    A1—1 to 24 centimeters (0.4 to 9.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; loam; strong very fine and fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium and coarse roots; ; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24068
    A3—24 to 52 centimeters (9.4 to 20.5 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; loam; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and fine and medium and 1.0 coarse pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24069
    B11T—52 to 75 centimeters (20.5 to 29.5 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and fine and medium roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and fine and medium pores; clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24070. continuous - phpvsfiid 196542; continuous - phpvsfiid 196542
    B12T—75 to 103 centimeters (29.5 to 40.6 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; clay loam; massive; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and 1.0 medium and coarse and fine and medium pores; clay films in root channels and/or pores and clay bridges; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24071. continuous - phpvsfiid 196543; continuous - phpvsfiid 196543
    B21T—103 to 138 centimeters (40.6 to 54.3 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; clay; massive; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine to coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and 1.0 fine pores; clay bridges and 30 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24072. continuous - phpvsfiid 196545; continuous - phpvsfiid 196545
    B22T—138 to 176 centimeters (54.3 to 69.3 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; clay; massive; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine to coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and 1.0 fine pores; clay bridges and 30 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A24073. continuous - phpvsfiid 186745; continuous - phpvsfiid 186745
    B23T—176 to 235 centimeters (69.3 to 92.5 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay; massive; hard when dry, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 very fine and 1.0 fine pores; clay films in root channels and/or pores and clay bridges; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24074. continuous - phpvsfiid 195424; continuous - phpvsfiid 195424
    B3T—235 to 255 centimeters (92.5 to 100.4 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; massive; hard when dry, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 very fine and fine pores; and 10 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A24075. continuous - phpvsfiid 195426; continuous - phpvsfiid 195426