IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lodo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: Temp Copy of (S1956-CA-11-011)
  • User Pedon ID: 56-CA-11-011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1956-CA-11-011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD5611011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41294
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 39.6999056
  • Std. Longitude: -122.5641917
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21 N
  • Range: 6 W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: SW/4
  • Location Description: Glenn County, California; 2 1/4 miles south-southwest of Chrome; north of Hull Road
  • Map Unit: LsD—Lodo-Tehama clay loams, 10 to 30 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: California
  • County: CA021—Glenn
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA021—Glenn County, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39122-F5—Chrome, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. L. Begg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Lithic Haploxerolls
  • 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 - Lodo (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 0 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/17/2015
  • Classifier - Ryan Miebach
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lodo (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, thermic Lithic Haploxerolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 5/15/1981
  • Classifier - E. L. Begg
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Dominant - annual grass
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Secondary - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Residue Description - leaves from grasses and forbs
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: erosion remnant
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: rectangular
  • Runoff: very high
  • Ksat Class Upper: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent slight weathered shale, unspecified at 18cm with <10; very strongly coherent slight weathered shale, unspecified at 23cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Knoxville formation of the Great Valley Sequence group. ; Knoxville formation of the Great Valley Sequence group.
  • Surface Fragments: 15.00 percent flat angular indurated 2- to 50-millimeter shale, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R015XF003CA Very Shallow Loamy Foothills Mar 18 2015 Judy Welles

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: E. L. Begg
  • 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
  • Kind of Land: rangeland
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    A1

    A2

    0

    0

    7

    7

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    Esther B. Perry

    Esther B. Perry

    42

    42

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    45.3

    45.3

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    12.7

    12.7

    sieves

    sieves

    3.2

    3.2

    3.7

    3.7

    2.2

    2.2

    1.7

    1.7

    1.9

    1.9

    300 mesh sieve

    300 mesh sieve

    sic

    sic

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    A1

    A2

    0

    0

    7

    7

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    29.4

    29.4

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    A1

    A2

    0

    0

    7

    7

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    2GA

    2FA

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    Grass, annual

    Forb, annual

    grass/grasslike

    forb

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    23 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    23—

    —18—

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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

    16

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    250

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    180

    585

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    240

    16.1

    24.8

    8.2

    17.1

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silty clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few fine roots; common very fine and common medium and common fine pores; 10 percent by volume , 15 percent by weight flat angular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00857
    A2—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular, and weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular, and weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; common medium and common fine pores; 10 percent by volume , 15 percent by weight flat angular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; neutral, pH 6.8, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00857
    C—18 to 23 centimeters (7.1 to 9.1 inches); channers; structureless single grain; flat angular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments.
    R—23 centimeters (9.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # UCD00858