IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Auburn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984CA115003
  • User Pedon ID: 84CA115003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1984CA115003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0879
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55667
  • Print Date: 4/19/2024

    • 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: 39.1027794
  • Std. Longitude: -121.2980576
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 152 meters E and 152 meters N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Camp Far West Quadrangle.
  • State: California
  • County: CA115—Yuba
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Lytle and P. Vonich
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Ruptic-Lithic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Auburn
  • PSC - 10 to 17 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Auburn
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, thermic Ruptic-Lithic Xerochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Bedrock: with 45 to <100
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1984 (actual site observation 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AVFA

    BRMO2

    QUDO

    Avena fatua

    Bromus mollis

    Quercus douglasii

    wild oat

    —

    blue oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—5

    5—43

    43—0

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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

    8

    —

    —

    112

    —

    225

    61

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    14

    —

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    17

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    1A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) exterior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) exterior, dry; loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium tubular and 5.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P04929. many very fine roots throughout
    1Bw1—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) exterior, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) exterior, dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P04930. Silt coatings in pores.; common very fine roots throughout; few fine roots
    1Bw2—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) exterior, dry; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 84P04931. Silt coatings in pores.; common very fine roots throughout; common fine and medium roots throughout
    1R—43 to 48 centimeters (16.9 to 18.9 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled.