IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Iron Mountain
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1954-CA-52-003
  • User Pedon ID: 54-CA-52-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD5452003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41256
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 40.1764832
  • Std. Longitude: -121.6574173
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: SE/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA103—Tehama
  • MLRA: 22B—Southern Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA645—Tehama County, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40121-B6—Barkley Mountain, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SCS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Ultic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Iron Mountain
  • PSC - 0 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/27/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - IRON MOUNTAIN
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, mesic Lithic Haploxerolls
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: volcanic breccia, unspecified
  • Geology: Tuscan Formation 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—23

    23—200

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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

    42

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    1173

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    90

    1143

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    11.1

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    A1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 12 percent clay; 10 percent by volume , 28 percent by weight 2-39-75 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments observed by weight and displacement method; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.
    A2—12 to 23 centimeters (4.7 to 9.1 inches); sandy loam; 61 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 14 percent clay; 10 percent by volume , 28 percent by weight 2-39-75 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments observed by weight and displacement method; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary.
    R—23 to 200 centimeters (9.1 to 78.7 inches); fragments.