IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fiddyment
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969CA061013
  • User Pedon ID: S1969CA061013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1969CA061013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 69C0021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43612
  • Print Date: 5/9/2024

    • 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: 38.8233337
  • Std. Longitude: -121.3047256
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 750 feet west and 500 feet south of NE corner
  • Location Description: Approximately 4.7 miles south of Lincoln on Highway 65 along embankment of PG&E substation; 15 feet west from Trigo pedon (S69CA-31-11); 750 feet west and 500 feet south of NE corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA061—Placer
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA620—Placer County, California, Western Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. A. Brittan, T. M. Ryan.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Abruptic Durixeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: variant
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fiddyment
  • PSC - 25 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fiddyment
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/7/1970 (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

    LUPIN

    TRHI4

    Lupinus

    Trifolium hirtum

    lupine

    rose clover

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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

    5

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    38

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    180

    610

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    16.1

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary.
    A3—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00098
    B2t—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; clay; weak medium and coarse prismatic structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 75 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00099
    2C1sim—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; brittle; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 75 percent clay films; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified. Strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) stains in matrix. Clay films are located in bedding planes.