IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ALTAMONT
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958-CA-52-050
  • User Pedon ID: 58-CA-52-050
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD5852050
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41930
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 40.2235260
  • Std. Longitude: -122.6500244
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: R7W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, NN/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA103—Tehama
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA645—Tehama County, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40122-B6—Cold Fork, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: KDG
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Typic Chromoxererts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ALTAMONT
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Typic Chromoxererts
  • Classificaton Date - 2/9/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/9/2009 (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
    • 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

    10

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    457

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    270

    610

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    5

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay; strong coarse granular parts to moderate thin platy structure; very hard, firm; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03338
    A12—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay; very hard, firm, moderately plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03339
    A13—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay; very hard, firm, moderately plastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03340
    AC—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, nonplastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03341
    Cca—61 to 89 centimeters (24.0 to 35.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; gravelly silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD03342
    Cr—89 to 107 centimeters (35.0 to 42.1 inches); hard; fragments. Lab sample # UCD03343