IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): LOVEJOY
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961CA063021
  • User Pedon ID: S1961CA063021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2934
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38063
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 39.7605553
  • Std. Longitude: -120.3716660
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 0.6 mile north and 0.1 mile west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: 100 feet north of farm road. Approximately four miles south of Beckwourth.
  • State: California
  • County: CA063—Plumas
  • MLRA: 21—Klamath and Shasta Valleys and Basins
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA614—Sierra Valley Area, California, Parts of Sierra, Plumas, and Lassen Counties

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Abruptic Xeric Argidurids
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - LOVEJOY (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 41 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lovejoy
  • Classificaton Date - 9/21/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hummock
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/21/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    duripan

    very strongly coherent

    53 - 104

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    duripan

    0—41

    41—53

    53—104

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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

    1

    —

    —

    1491

    —

    381

    —

    —

    7.2

    17.2

    -1.7

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    A1—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); gray (10YR 6/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; strong very fine platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and 3.0 fine tubular and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23143
    A2—6 to 25 centimeters (2.4 to 9.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine platy structure; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 very fine vesicular and tubular and 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23144
    A3—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; fine sandy loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine to medium roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 30 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23145; moist when described;. few black shot.
    Bt—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay; strong coarse columnar structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine to medium roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23146; moist when described;. few black shot.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1716202; continuous - phpvsfiid 1716202
    Bkqm—53 to 104 centimeters (20.9 to 40.9 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), moist; massive parts to strong medium angular blocky; extremely hard, extremely firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.0 roots; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23147; moist when described;. no roots except for a thin mat 3 inches below the B2; strongly effervescent, lime is in distinct horizontal seams and the matrix is noncalcareous; pale yellow material is predominantly in horizontal seams and the matrix in the upper part of the horizon; horizon does not slake in water.
    C—104 to 135 centimeters (40.9 to 53.1 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; loam; massive; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A23148; moist when described;