IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ARKRIGHT
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973-CA-45-177x
  • User Pedon ID: 73-CA-45-177x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1973-CA-45-177x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7345177
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42284
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 40.9153519
  • Std. Longitude: -121.5443573
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, SE/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA089—Shasta
  • MLRA: 22B—Southern Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA604—Intermountain Area, Parts of Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, and Siskiyou Counties, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40121-H5—Cassel, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JIM, DLH, WRA
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Pachic Argixerolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ARKRIGHT
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Pachic Argixerolls
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: basalt
  • Geology: Basalt formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/27/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • 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

    PIPO

    Pinus ponderosa

    ponderosa pine

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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

    2

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    978

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    0

    483

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    9.4

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    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01544
    A11—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist; stony loam; strong very fine granular parts to weak coarse granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 0.5 medium irregular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1 smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01545
    A12—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01546
    B21t—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 medium tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01547
    B22t—46 to 74 centimeters (18.1 to 29.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 75 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 75 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01548
    R—74 to 74 centimeters (29.1 to 29.1 inches); hard; fragments. Lab sample # UCD01549