IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): WACA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961-CA-45-129
  • User Pedon ID: 61-CA-45-129
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1961-CA-45-129
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6145129
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41989
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 40.6053085
  • Std. Longitude: -121.7091522
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: SE/4, SE/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA089—Shasta
  • MLRA: 22B—Southern Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA607—Shasta County Area, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40121-E6—Viola, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ENG, EBA
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, frigid Andic Xerochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - WACA
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal, frigid Andic Xerochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 1/28/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Bedrock: volcanic breccia, unspecified
  • Geology: Andesite Tuff Breccia formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/28/2009 (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

    ABCO

    Abies concolor

    white 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

    47

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    2012

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    225

    1524

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    4.4

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    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01006
    O2—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5. Lab sample # UCD01007
    A11—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; strong very fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01008
    A12—13 to 21 centimeters (5.1 to 8.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly loamy coarse sand; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01009
    C—21 to 69 centimeters (8.3 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; very gravelly loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose, loose; 21.0 very fine vesicular and 21.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine irregular and 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 75 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01010
    Cr—69 to 69 centimeters (27.2 to 27.2 inches); 0.1 very fine roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # UCD01011