IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tisdale taxadjunct
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014CA101004
  • User Pedon ID: S2018CA101004B
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2014CA101004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 19N0164
  • User Project ID: 2015-CHI-DSP-01
  • Project Name: DSP - MLRA 17 - CA 2014 Sutter County Prune Orchard
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 39.1755000
  • Std. Longitude: -121.6899722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15
  • Range: 2
  • Section: 1
  • Location Description: Atwell Farm off of Township Rd. North West of Yuba City, California.
  • Map Unit: 174—Tisdale clay loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA101—Sutter
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-CHI—Chico, California
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA101—Sutter County, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39121-B6—Sutter, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Andrew Conlin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Haplic Durixeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tisdale taxadjunct
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Haplic Durixeralfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 13 to 52 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/7/2014
  • Classifier - Andrew Conlin
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - prunes
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Late Pleistocene alluvium over middle Pleistocene alluvium over sandy and silty alluvium from redeposited glaciolacustrine sediments all from igneous and metamorphic rock
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot Estab. Year: 2014
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - RV-2

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/10/2014 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Andrew Conlin, Ryan Miebach
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - crop trees
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PRUNU

    2BARE

    Prunus

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    plum

    Bare Ground

    —

    —

    —

    —

    overstory

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—13

    13—40

    —13—

    —27—
    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

    0.5

    —

    —

    17

    —

    533

    —

    —

    16.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate very coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common very fine roots; many very fine tubular and common fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N00881; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Atp—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate very coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common very fine roots and few medium roots and few fine roots; many very fine tubular and common fine tubular pores; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N00882; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate very coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common very fine roots and few medium roots and few fine roots and few coarse roots; many very fine tubular pores; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N00883; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—28 to 40 centimeters (11.0 to 15.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common very fine roots and few fine roots; common fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary.; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small