IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Argonaut
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990CA115007
  • User Pedon ID: 90CA115007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0417
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63463
  • Print Date: 4/30/2024

    • 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: 39.2355537
  • Std. Longitude: -121.3044434
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet S and 2500 feet E of NW 1/4 corner
  • Location Description: Burned rainfall simulator site, about 1.1 mile southeast of Long Bar Road, 200 feet west of fork in Long Bar Road to turn of field station HQ. Smartville 7.5 min quad.
  • State: California
  • County: CA115—Yuba

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.R.M.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, thermic Mollic Palexeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Argonaut
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Argonaut
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, thermic Mollic Haploxeralf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    9

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    341

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    270

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) exterior and brown (7.5YR 5/4), yellowish red (5YR 4/6) exterior and dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02397. common very fine roots
    AB—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02398. few very fine and fine roots
    Bt1—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02399. few clay films surface features; few very fine roots
    2Bt1—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; silty clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02400. common clay films surface features; few fine and medium roots; few very fine roots
    2Bt2—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; silty clay; massive; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. common clay films surface features; few very fine and fine roots
    Cr—71 to 74 centimeters (28.0 to 29.1 inches); fragments. weathered greenstone