IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): WACA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979-CA-45-195x
  • User Pedon ID: 79-CA-45-195x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7945195
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42359
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 40.6592522
  • Std. Longitude: -121.7381287
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: SE/4, NW/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA089—Shasta
  • MLRA: 22B—Southern Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA607—Shasta County Area, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40121-F6—Jacks Backbone, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RGD, JHP
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, frigid Andic Xerumbrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - WACA
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal, frigid Andic Xerumbrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 3/2/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: volcanic breccia, unspecified
  • Geology: Basic Igneous Tuff Breccia. G 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, savanna
  • 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

    5

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    1731

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    0

    1270

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    7.2

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    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01034
    A11—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; stony loam; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01035
    A12—6 to 54 centimeters (2.4 to 21.3 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; sandy loam; weak fine granular parts to weak medium subangular blocky 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 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular and 21.0 coarse tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01036
    B22—54 to 105 centimeters (21.3 to 41.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; very cobbly loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01037
    B21—54 to 105 centimeters (21.3 to 41.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; very cobbly loam; moderate coarse wedge parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular and 3.0 coarse tubular pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01038
    Cr&B22—105 to 173 centimeters (41.3 to 68.1 inches); 3.0 very fine roots in cracks and 3.0 medium roots in cracks and 3.0 fine roots in cracks and 3.0 coarse roots in cracks; fragments. Lab sample # UCD01039