IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arkright
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981CA089005
  • User Pedon ID: 81CA089005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0718
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49562
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 40.9267998
  • Std. Longitude: -121.6410751
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: The pedon is 152 meters S and 655 meters W of the NE corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA089—Shasta
  • MLRA: 22B—Southern Cascade Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Ferrari and W. Lindsey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arkright
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arkright
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, oxidic, mesic Ultic Haploxeralf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1981
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: terrace—outwash or marine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • 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 - hardwoods
  • 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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    954

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    270

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    1A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; sandy loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular and 5.5 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P04309. many very fine and fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout
    1A3—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04310. many very fine roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    1B21t—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; 55 percent clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04311. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; many clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine and fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout
    1B22t—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 55 percent clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04312. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; many clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine and fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout
    1B23t—74 to 97 centimeters (29.1 to 38.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent black stains on faces of peds and 55 percent clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P04313. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; many clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few black stains surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots throughout
    1CR—97 to 117 centimeters (38.2 to 46.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; very cobbly sandy clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 55 percent clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 81P04314. Overlies fractured basalt. Mn staining and small Mn nodules on ped faces between Cr and R.; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; many clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine and fine roots throughout
    1R—117 to 199 centimeters (46.1 to 78.3 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled.