IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): TUSCAN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958-CA-52-043
  • User Pedon ID: 58-CA-52-043
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD5852043
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41928
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 40.1989365
  • Std. Longitude: -122.0711517
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 29
  • State: California
  • County: CA103—Tehama
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA645—Tehama County, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40122-B1—Tuscan Springs, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: KDG
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Typic Durixeralfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - TUSCAN
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Typic Durixeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 10/21/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Geology: Basic Igneous Rock formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/21/2008 (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
    • 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

    3

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    90

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    270

    584

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    17.2

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    A11—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; cobbly loam; weak medium platy parts to weak thin platy structure; very hard, friable, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1. Lab sample # UCD03323
    A3—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; cobbly clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # UCD03324
    B1t—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; strong medium angular blocky parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5. Lab sample # UCD03325
    B2t—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; very cobbly clay loam; massive; nonplastic; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5. Lab sample # UCD03326
    B3msi—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; fragments. Lab sample # UCD03327