IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lorella
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980CA049022
  • User Pedon ID: 80CA049022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0465
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48241
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 41.9536095
  • Std. Longitude: -121.2838898
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 48N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 493 meters N and 438 meters W of the SE corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA049—Modoc

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DJL/JJJ/TDC/OWB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, montmorillonitic, mesic Lithic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 22
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lorella
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, montmorillonitic, mesic Lithic Argixerolls
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1980
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    1450

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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; very stony loam; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P02579. common very fine and fine roots
    1A2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; very stony loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P02580. common very fine and fine roots
    1Bt1—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; very cobbly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P02581. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine and fine roots
    1Bt2—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; very cobbly clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P02582. many clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine and fine roots
    1R—41 centimeters (16.1 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; unknown texture; 55 percent , moist, clay films on rock fragments; fragments. Not sampled. Hard basalt or tuff. 3mk clay films on surface of rock and in fractures.; many clay films surface features on rock fragments