IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): WACA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972-CA-04-049x
  • User Pedon ID: 72-CA-04-049x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1972-CA-04-049x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7204049
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42249
  • 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: 39.9893112
  • Std. Longitude: -121.4459915
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, SW/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA007—Butte
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA708—Lassen National Forest, California, Parts of Lassen, Plumas, Butte, Shasta, and Siskiyou Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39121-H4—Kimshew Point, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JIM, BHW
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, frigid Entic Xerumbrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - WACA
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal, frigid Entic Xerumbrepts
  • 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: well
  • Bedrock: gabbro
  • Geology: Moraine Of Basalt And Gabbro. 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABMA

    Abies magnifica

    California red 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

    17

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    1890

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    180

    1956

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    4.4

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    O1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03719
    A11—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; gravelly loam; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 21.0 vesicular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03720
    A12—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; extremely gravelly loam; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 vesicular pores; 60 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03721
    C1—46 to 91 centimeters (18.1 to 35.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; very gravelly loam; single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # UCD03722
    C2—91 to 102 centimeters (35.8 to 40.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; extremely gravelly fine sandy loam; 0.1 medium roots throughout; 60 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # UCD03723