IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Red Bluff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959CA005010
  • User Pedon ID: S1959CA005010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2907
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37486
  • 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: 38.2949982
  • Std. Longitude: -121.0277786
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: approximately 0.25 mile west of the NE corner
  • Location Description: California near Buena Vista School,
  • 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: Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: variant
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Red Bluff
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Red Bluff
  • 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
    • 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

    10

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    91

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    270

    508

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    A11—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; soft, friable; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22925
    A12—3 to 23 centimeters (1.2 to 9.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 21.0 very fine roots and fine and medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine and 3.0 medium and 1.0 coarse pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22926
    B1—23 to 56 centimeters (9.1 to 22.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine to coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and fine and 3.0 medium and 1.0 coarse pores; clay films in root channels and/or pores and clay bridges; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22927. continuous - phpvsfiid 186750; continuous - phpvsfiid 186750
    B2—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly clay loam; massive; hard when dry, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine and fine roots and medium and coarse roots; 3.0 very fine and fine and medium and 1.0 coarse pores; clay bridges and 30 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22928. continuous - phpvsfiid 186752; continuous - phpvsfiid 186752
    2C—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; loam; hard when dry, very firm; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A22929. many feet thick.