IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Britton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981CA089003
  • User Pedon ID: 81CA089003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0716
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49560
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 41.0048561
  • Std. Longitude: -121.5744095
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: The pedon is 30.5 meters N and 914 meters W of the SE corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA089—Shasta
  • MLRA: 22B—Southern Cascade Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Ferrari and W. Lindsey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, subactive, nonacid, mesic Vitrandic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Britton
  • Classificaton Date - 11/30/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Britton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, nonacid, mesic Typic Xerorthent
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    20

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    914

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    180

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    1A11—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P04296. many very fine and fine roots throughout
    1A12—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04297. many very fine and fine roots throughout
    1A13—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 5.5 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04298. many very fine and fine roots throughout; few coarse roots throughout
    1R—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); diatomaceous earth; fragments. Lab sample # 81P04299. Fractured diatomite.