IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Musserhill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984CA105008
  • User Pedon ID: 84CA105008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0200
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58005
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 40.5954056
  • Std. Longitude: -122.8694382
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 9W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet W and 1300 feet N of SE corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA105—Trinity

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Musserhill
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keefers V
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    31

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    808

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    225

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    O—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); partially decomposed organic matter; fragments. Leaves, twigs and grass stems.
    A—1 to 11 centimeters (0.4 to 4.3 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, moist; loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01206. 10% gravel.; few fine and medium roots; common very fine roots
    BA—11 to 24 centimeters (4.3 to 9.4 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, moist; gravelly clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01207. 15% gravel.; few fine and medium roots; common very fine roots
    Bt1—24 to 34 centimeters (9.4 to 13.4 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, moist; gravelly clay loam; 38 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01208. 25% gravel.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few coarse roots; common fine and medium roots
    Bt2—34 to 49 centimeters (13.4 to 19.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior and brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior, moist; very gravelly clay; 44 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 37 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01209. 35% gravel.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common medium and coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bt3—49 to 82 centimeters (19.3 to 32.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior and brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, moist; very gravelly clay; 42 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 37 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01210. 45% gravel.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few medium and coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Cr—82 to 108 centimeters (32.3 to 42.5 inches); weathered bedrock; extremely hard; 0.1 very fine roots; fragments. Weakly consolidated conglomerate, consolidated with clay, rock fragments rounded 3 to 8 cm, very dense.; very few very fine roots