IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): AUBURN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983CA067006
  • User Pedon ID: 83CA067006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1983CA067006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0801
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53582
  • Print Date: 4/26/2024

    • 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: 38.6551743
  • Std. Longitude: -121.1110306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet south and 900 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Sacramento County, California; about 3.2 miles east of the town of Folsom, 5,400 feet east of intersection of Russell Ranch Road and Placerville Road, 1,400 feet south-southwest of cattle guard on Russell Ranch Road.
  • State: California
  • County: CA067—Sacramento
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA067—Sacramento County, California

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, thermic Ruptic-Lithic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - AUBURN
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Auburn
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, thermic Ruptic-Lithic Xerochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hilly foothills
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    AVFA

    BRHOH

    ERODI

    HEMIZ

    Avena fatua

    Bromus hordeaceus ssp. hordeaceus

    Erodium

    Hemizonia

    wild oat

    soft brome

    stork's bill

    tarweed

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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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    188.9

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    293

    609

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    16.1

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), dry; loam; 21 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine distinct and 21 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; massive; hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine interstitial and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04041
    A2—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; loam; massive; hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04042
    Bw1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 0.5 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04043
    Bw2—25 to 35 centimeters (9.8 to 13.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry; loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 0.5 fine interstitial and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay bridges between sand grains; 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 83P04044
    R—35 to 120 centimeters (13.8 to 47.2 inches); bedrock; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 83P04045