IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): BEHEMOTOSH
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961-CA-45-115x
  • User Pedon ID: 61-CA-45-115x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1961-CA-45-115x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6145115
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41985
  • 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: 40.6734657
  • Std. Longitude: -122.5292435
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 33N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 34
  • 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-F5—Whiskeytown, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JIM, BFS, COS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - BEHEMOTOSH
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 1/30/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Bedrock: metavolcanics
  • Geology: Balakala Rhyolite. Geologic Fo 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PSEUD7

    Pseudotsuga

    Douglas-fir

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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

    55

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    9

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    90

    1905

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    11.7

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    O—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01429
    A11—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very gravelly loam; moderate medium granular parts to moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 1 percent clay films; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01430
    A12—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly loam; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 1 percent clay films; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01431
    B1t—13 to 44 centimeters (5.1 to 17.3 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; very gravelly loam; weak coarse granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01432
    B2t—44 to 64 centimeters (17.3 to 25.2 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; very cobbly clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent clay films on surfaces along pores and 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01433
    Cr—64 to 64 centimeters (25.2 to 25.2 inches); 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # UCD01434