IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SHEETIRON
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1952-CA-17-023x
  • User Pedon ID: 52-CA-17-023x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1952-CA-17-023x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD5217023
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41216
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 39.5020523
  • Std. Longitude: -122.7437744
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 15
  • State: California
  • County: CA033—Lake
  • MLRA: 5—Siskiyou-Trinity Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA033—Lake County, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39122-E6—Felkner Hill, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RAG
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, micaceous, frigid Dystric Xerochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SHEETIRON
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, micaceous, frigid Dystric Xerochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: schist, unspecified
  • Geology: Sericite Schist formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/2008 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • 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

    ABCO

    Abies concolor

    white fir

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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

    40

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    1829

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    0

    1397

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    5

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    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; fragments. Lab sample # UCD01855
    A11—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly loam; strong fine granular structure; very friable; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01856
    A12—6 to 23 centimeters (2.4 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01857
    B2—23 to 67 centimeters (9.1 to 26.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01858
    R—67 to 67 centimeters (26.4 to 26.4 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01859