IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): AIKEN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972-CA-04-051x
  • User Pedon ID: 72-CA-04-051x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1972-CA-04-051x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7204051
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42250
  • Print Date: 5/18/2024

    • 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: 39.8374176
  • Std. Longitude: -121.5912170
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: SE/4, NW/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA007—Butte
  • MLRA: 22B—Southern Cascade 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
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, mesic Typic Haploxerults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - AIKEN
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed, mesic Typic Haploxerults
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: tuff, unspecified
  • Geology: Tuff Breccia. Geologic Format 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, grassland
  • 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

    CALOC2

    Calocedrus

    incense cedar

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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

    5

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    1049

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    180

    1448

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    13.9

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    A1—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; clay; granular structure; friable; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7. Lab sample # UCD02725
    B2t—30 to 71 centimeters (11.8 to 28.0 inches);, dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; clay; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 21.0 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # UCD02726
    B31t—71 to 122 centimeters (28.0 to 48.0 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; silty clay; firm; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2. Lab sample # UCD02727
    B32t—122 to 335 centimeters (48.0 to 131.9 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # UCD02728