IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sites
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1954-CA-17-018x
  • User Pedon ID: 54-CA-17-018x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1954-CA-17-018x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD5417018
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41249
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.3143463
  • Std. Longitude: -122.9354248
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 10W
  • Section: 24
  • 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-C8—Elk Mountain, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RAG, FCR
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, parasesquic, mesic Xeric Haplohumults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sites
  • PSC - 31 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/11/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SITES
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, oxidic, mesic Xeric Haplohumults
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: shale, unspecified
  • Geology: Shale formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/25/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    QUKE

    Quercus kelloggii

    California black oak

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—31

    31—133

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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

    35

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    1128

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    90

    1016

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    9.4

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD03670
    A—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly clay loam; 42 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 32 percent clay; strong medium granular structure; very friable; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear boundary. Lab sample # UCD03671
    AB—13 to 31 centimeters (5.1 to 12.2 inches);, 5YR 6/ (5YR 6/),, dry; very gravelly clay loam; 39 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 34 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear boundary. Lab sample # UCD03672
    Bt1—31 to 54 centimeters (12.2 to 21.3 inches);, reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), dry; very gravelly clay; 29 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 50 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual boundary. Lab sample # UCD03673
    Bt2—54 to 115 centimeters (21.3 to 45.3 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), dry; clay; 24 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 59 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD03674
    BCt—115 to 133 centimeters (45.3 to 52.4 inches); gravelly clay; 29 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 46 percent clay; massive; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # UCD03675