IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ARGONAUT
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966-CA-04-001x
  • User Pedon ID: 66-CA-04-001x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1966-CA-04-001x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6604001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42086
  • Print Date: 4/30/2024

    • 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: 39.3354874
  • Std. Longitude: -121.4852448
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: NE/4, NE/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA007—Butte
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA612—Butte Area, California, Parts of Butte and Plumas Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39121-C4—Loma Rica, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BFS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, thermic Typic Haploxeralfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ARGONAUT
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, thermic Typic Haploxeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 1/23/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: metavolcanics
  • Geology: Greenstone (meta-andesite). Ge formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/23/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • 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

    QUDO

    Quercus douglasii

    blue 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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    55

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    338

    711

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    16.1

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01343
    A3—5 to 38 centimeters (2.0 to 15.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), 5YR 3/6 (5YR 3/6), moist; loam; massive; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01344
    R2t—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; gravelly clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to massive; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 0.1 fine tubular pores; 75 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01345
    R—64 to 200 centimeters (25.2 to 78.7 inches); hard; fragments. Lab sample # UCD01346