IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MCCARTHY
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1962-CA-45-140x
  • User Pedon ID: 62-CA-45-140x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6245140
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42015
  • 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: 40.9907455
  • Std. Longitude: -121.8758545
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: NE/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-H8—Roaring Creek, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: COS, JIM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MCCARTHY
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 1/28/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: tuff, unspecified
  • Geology: Volcanic Tuff, Andesite, And B 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, 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

    30

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    634

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    0

    1778

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    8.3

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    O1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03176
    A1—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), black (5YR 2/1), moist; extremely stony loam; strong very fine angular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular pores; 60 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03177
    A3—18 to 56 centimeters (7.1 to 22.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; cobbly loam; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD03178
    B2t—56 to 96 centimeters (22.0 to 37.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; very stony loam; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 roots; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 3.0 very fine vesicular pores; 1 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD03179
    BCt—96 to 96 centimeters (37.8 to 37.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; very stony sandy loam; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 3.0 roots throughout; 21.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2. Lab sample # UCD03180