IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Valcreek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983CA105009
  • User Pedon ID: 83CA105009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0084
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53778
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 40.6038895
  • Std. Longitude: -122.7472229
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet west and 1600 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: 32 km E of Weaverville on Rt 299 .2 km E of entrance to Shingle Shanty take left fork 1.9 km 61 meters left down spu
  • State: California
  • County: CA105—Trinity
  • MLRA: 5—Siskiyou-Trinity Area

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Howell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Xerorthents
  • 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 #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Valcreek
  • PSC - 25 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Choop
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Xerorthent
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • 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

    0—20

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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

    65

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    1039

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    135

    550

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    O—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); undecomposed organic matter; fragments. Lab sample # 84P00413. Not sampled.
    A1—8 to 16 centimeters (3.1 to 6.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; very gravelly loamy coarse sand; 3 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00412. many very fine roots
    A2—16 to 28 centimeters (6.3 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; fine gravelly loamy coarse sand; 3 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00413. many very fine roots; common fine roots
    C1—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, very pale brown (10YR 8/3) interior, dry; fine gravelly loamy coarse sand; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00414. May be sandy loam thus cambic.; few very fine and fine roots
    C2—48 to 87 centimeters (18.9 to 34.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, very pale brown (10YR 8/3) interior, dry; extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 65 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 84P00415. few very fine roots
    Cr—87 to 108 centimeters (34.3 to 42.5 inches); weathered bedrock; soft; fragments. Lab sample # 84P00416. Decomposed granite rock.