IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ETSEL
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971-CA-45-171x
  • User Pedon ID: 71-CA-45-171x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7145171
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42228
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 40.7968483
  • Std. Longitude: -122.5355072
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: SE/4, SW/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA089—Shasta
  • MLRA: 5—Siskiyou-Trinity Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA607—Shasta County Area, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40122-G5—Schell Mountain, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JIM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, nonacid, mesic Lithic Xerorthents
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ETSEL
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, nonacid, mesic Lithic Xerorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified
  • Geology: Sandstone And Shale. Geologic formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/25/2009 (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

    60

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    1067

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    180

    1778

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    13.3

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    C—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD03822
    A1—3 to 11 centimeters (1.2 to 4.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; strong fine granular structure; soft, friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 21.0 fine irregular pores; 60 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03823
    B2—11 to 26 centimeters (4.3 to 10.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; very gravelly loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD03824
    R—26 to 33 centimeters (10.2 to 13.0 inches); sand; fragments. Lab sample # UCD03825