IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Belzar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979CA093007
  • User Pedon ID: 79CA093007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0491
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47224
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 41.5892906
  • Std. Longitude: -121.7872009
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 43N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 18
  • State: California
  • County: CA093—Siskiyou
  • MLRA: 22B—Southern Cascade Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G.K.L. and R.C.G.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Vitrixerands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Belzar
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Snd
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    O—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Scattered pine needles and twigs. Not sampled.
    A11—1 to 6 centimeters (0.4 to 2.4 inches); unknown texture; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02622. 1/2 to 1 inch pumice gravel.
    A12—6 to 34 centimeters (2.4 to 13.4 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very gravelly loamy coarse sand; 6 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 fine and medium interstitial and tubular pores; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P02623. few very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    2A1—34 to 77 centimeters (13.4 to 30.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; fine sandy loam; 16 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02624. few very fine and fine roots; few coarse roots
    2B1t—77 to 110 centimeters (30.3 to 43.3 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; very fine sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P02625. Pockets of gravel and ashy material in this horizon.; few very fine roots
    2B2t—110 to 164 centimeters (43.3 to 64.6 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; very fine sandy loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent clay films between sand grains; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P02626. few clay films surface features between sand grains; few very fine and fine roots
    2Cr—164 to 167 centimeters (64.6 to 65.7 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Not sampled.