IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Minersville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983CA105008
  • User Pedon ID: 83CA105008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0083
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53777
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 40.6549988
  • Std. Longitude: -122.7472229
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Hwy 299 1.8 km E of Buckhorn Hwy maintenance sta. 214 meters uphill to E. South of creek.
  • State: California
  • County: CA105—Trinity
  • MLRA: 5—Siskiyou-Trinity Area

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Howell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Minersville
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Minersville
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Xerochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1983 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—10

    10—80

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    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

    72

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    —

    869

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    0

    550

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    O—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); undecomposed organic matter; fragments. Not sampled.
    A—5 to 17 centimeters (2.0 to 6.7 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; sandy loam; 12 percent clay; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00407. few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bw1—17 to 48 centimeters (6.7 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; sandy loam; 13 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent brown (10YR 5/3) clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent gray (10YR 5/1) clay films in root channels and/or pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00408. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; common very fine and fine roots; many medium roots
    Bw2—48 to 80 centimeters (18.9 to 31.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; fine gravelly coarse sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00409. common very fine roots; few fine and medium roots
    C—80 to 112 centimeters (31.5 to 44.1 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) crushed and 50 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, 50 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) interior and 50 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; 5 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00410. few very fine roots
    Cr—112 to 130 centimeters (44.1 to 51.2 inches); weathered bedrock; soft; fragments. Lab sample # 84P00411. Weathered crumbly granitic rock.