IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ARGONAUT
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967-CA-58-118x
  • User Pedon ID: 67-CA-58-118x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1967-CA-58-118x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6758118
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42171
  • Print Date: 5/1/2024

    • 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: 39.3730125
  • Std. Longitude: -121.2338867
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: NE/4, SW/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA115—Yuba
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA618—Yuba County, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39121-C2—French Corral, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WLC, BFS, JIM
  • 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 - 1/9/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/9/2009 (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

    13

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    1700

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    270

    1219

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    5

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; coarse sandy loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01925
    A12—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; very hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular and 0.5 fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear boundary. Lab sample # UCD01926
    B11t—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular and 0.5 fine irregular pores; 1 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01927
    B12t—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); 5YR 4/ (5YR 4/),, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.1 fine roots throughout; 0.1 fine tubular pores; 1 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01928
    B21t—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay; strong very coarse angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual boundary. Lab sample # UCD01929
    B22t—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; clay; strong very coarse angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual boundary. Lab sample # UCD01930
    B3t—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist; clay; strong very coarse angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; gradual boundary. Lab sample # UCD01931
    Cr/B3t—122 to 122 centimeters (48.0 to 48.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4. Lab sample # UCD01932