IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Auburn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959CA005008
  • User Pedon ID: S1959CA005008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959CA005008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38134
  • 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: 38.4716682
  • Std. Longitude: -121.0374985
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet NE of the SW corner
  • Location Description: On the Kuhl property.
  • State: California
  • County: CA005—Amador
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA628—Amador Area, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Kennedy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, thermic Ruptic-Lithic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Auburn
  • PSC - 25 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Auburn
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1959 (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

    AMSIN

    QUERC

    Amsinckia

    Quercus

    fiddleneck

    oak

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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

    3

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    71

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    315

    635

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    A11—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23594
    A12—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dry; gravelly silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine and medium roots; 21.0 very fine and 3.0 fine pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23595
    B2—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dry; silt loam; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine and medium roots; 21.0 very fine and 1.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A23596. continuous - phpvsfiid 186770; continuous - phpvsfiid 186770
    Cr—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches);, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A23597. Light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) decomposing amphibolite schist with reddish brown colloidal staining on fracture planes and roots in cracks; strongly weathered in top 4 inches;