IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): GAVIOTA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972-CA-45-137x
  • User Pedon ID: 72-CA-45-137x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1972-CA-45-137x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7245137
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42251
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 40.4801064
  • Std. Longitude: -122.6068649
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30N
  • Range: 7N
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: NE/4, SN/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA089—Shasta
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA607—Shasta County Area, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40122-D5—Ono, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JIM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, thermic Lithic Haploxerolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - GAVIOTA
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, thermic Lithic Haploxerolls
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified
  • Geology: Hard Sandstone. Geologic Forma 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

    QUDO

    Quercus douglasii

    blue 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

    25

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    274

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    180

    1016

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    16.7

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    A11—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03794
    A12—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD03795
    R—28 to 28 centimeters (11.0 to 11.0 inches); sand; moderately hard; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7. Lab sample # UCD03796