IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sites
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972-CA-04-044x
  • User Pedon ID: 72-CA-04-044x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7204044
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42246
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 39.8735924
  • Std. Longitude: -121.5580215
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, SW/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA007—Butte
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA612—Butte Area, California, Parts of Butte and Plumas Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39121-G5—Paradise East, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JIM, WRA, FH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, parasesquic, mesic Xeric Haplohumults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sites
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/11/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SITES
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, oxidic, mesic Xeric Haplohumults
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: metavolcanics
  • Geology: Parent Material: Schist. Geol formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/25/2009 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    109 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—20

    20—109

    109—

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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

    15

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    953

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    135

    1168

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    12.8

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01834
    A—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; silt loam; 29 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01835
    BAt—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; 40 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01836
    Bt—38 to 69 centimeters (15.0 to 27.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; clay; 28 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 45 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 75 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 75 percent clay films between sand grains and 75 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01837
    BCt—69 to 109 centimeters (27.2 to 42.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; 28 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 36 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01838
    Cr—109 to 124 centimeters (42.9 to 48.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01839