IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): KINDIG
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965-CA-45-164x
  • User Pedon ID: 65-CA-45-164x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965-CA-45-164x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6545164
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42079
  • 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: 41.0627518
  • Std. Longitude: -122.3739243
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: SE/4, SW/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA089—Shasta
  • MLRA: 5—Siskiyou-Trinity Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA707—Shasta-Trinity National Forest Area, Parts of Humboldt, Siskiyou, Shasta, Tehama, and Trinity Counties, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41122-A3—Tombstone Mountain, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: COS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Dystric Xerochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - KINDIG
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Dystric Xerochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: ultramafic, unspecified
  • Geology: Mesozoic Ultrabasic Intrusive formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/26/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • 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

    QUKE

    Quercus kelloggii

    California black oak

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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

    54

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    634

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    90

    1651

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    5

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    O1/O2—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01996
    A11—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; very gravelly loam; massive; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 roots; 3.0 medium irregular and 3.0 irregular pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01997
    A3—13 to 43 centimeters (5.1 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; very gravelly clay loam; massive; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 roots throughout; 3.0 fine irregular and 3.0 fine vesicular and 3.0 vesicular and 3.0 irregular pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01998
    B2t—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry; very gravelly sandy clay loam; massive; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine irregular and 3.0 fine vesicular and 3.0 vesicular and 3.0 irregular pores; 10 percent clay films between sand grains and 10 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01999
    B3t—71 to 162 centimeters (28.0 to 63.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very gravelly sandy clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular and 3.0 fine vesicular and 3.0 irregular and 3.0 vesicular and 3.0 tubular pores; 10 percent clay films between sand grains and 10 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4. Lab sample # UCD02000