IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): AUBURN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966-CA-04-002x
  • User Pedon ID: 66-CA-04-002x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6604002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42087
  • Print Date: 4/20/2024

    • 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: 39.5063972
  • Std. Longitude: -121.4715881
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: SN/4, NE/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA007—Butte
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA612—Butte Area, California, Parts of Butte and Plumas Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39121-E4—Oroville Dam, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BFS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, thermic Ruptic-Lithic Xerochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - AUBURN
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, thermic Ruptic-Lithic Xerochrepts
  • PSC - 0 to 36 cm.
  • 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
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: metavolcanics
  • Geology: Greenstone. Geolo Ic Formation 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
    • 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

    12

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    323

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    78

    889

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dry; stony loam; 39 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 medium irregular and 0.5 fine tubular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 250-400-600 millimeter metavolcanics fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01335
    A12—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), 5YR 5/ (5YR 5/),, dry; loam; 43 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual boundary. Lab sample # UCD01336
    B2—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry; gravelly loam; 38 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 23 percent clay; massive; very firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films between sand grains; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter metavolcanics fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01337
    C—36 to 36 centimeters (14.2 to 14.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01338