IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): DIAMOND SPRINGS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961-CA-45-110x
  • User Pedon ID: 61-CA-45-110x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6145110
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41981
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 40.6502571
  • Std. Longitude: -122.4626770
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 5N
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: NN/4, NN/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA089—Shasta
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA607—Shasta County Area, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40122-F4—Shasta Dam, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BFS, EBA, JIM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Typic Haploxerults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - DIAMOND SPRINGS
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Typic Haploxerults
  • Classificaton Date - 1/30/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Trondhjemite. Geologic Formati formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/30/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • 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

    42

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    259

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    90

    1524

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    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01452
    A1—3 to 16 centimeters (1.2 to 6.3 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3), moist; coarse sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to massive; friable; 3.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01453
    B2t—16 to 46 centimeters (6.3 to 18.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 3 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) medium distinct and 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to massive; friable; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 10 percent clay films on surfaces along pores and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01454
    Cr—46 to 46 centimeters (18.1 to 18.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; firm; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 10 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # UCD01455