IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MCCARTHY
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976-CA-47-123x
  • User Pedon ID: 76-CA-47-123x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1976-CA-47-123x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7647123
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42332
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 41.2159119
  • Std. Longitude: -121.8386002
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 39N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: NW/4, SE/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA093—Siskiyou
  • 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: 41121-B7—Dead Horse Summit, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RGD, BFS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, mesic Andic Xerochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MCCARTHY
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal, mesic Andic Xerochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 3/2/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: andesite
  • Geology: Andesite formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/2/2009 (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

    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

    17

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    1329

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    315

    1397

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    10

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    O1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03940
    O2—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03941
    A1—8 to 26 centimeters (3.1 to 10.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; strong fine granular parts to strong very fine 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 and 21.0 roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03942
    B1—26 to 54 centimeters (10.2 to 21.3 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/3), dry; gravelly loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; gradual boundary. Lab sample # UCD03943
    B2—54 to 72 centimeters (21.3 to 28.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dry; very gravelly loam; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03944
    Cr—72 to 72 centimeters (28.3 to 28.3 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD03945