IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Altamont
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985CA021002
  • User Pedon ID: 85CA021002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0850
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57116
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 39.6352768
  • Std. Longitude: -122.2388916
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4
  • Location Description: 6 mi W of Orland.
  • State: California
  • County: CA021—Glenn
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. C. Lindsey and L. A. Hokholt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Aridic Haploxererts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Altamont
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Altamont
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Typic Chromoxerert
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1985
  • 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: toeslope
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    0—86

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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

    5

    —

    —

    98

    —

    315

    56

    —

    —

    16

    36

    1

    16

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    —

    —

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    4-6506

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    1Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04593; dry when described;. many very fine roots throughout; few fine roots throughout
    1Ap2—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04594; dry when described;. many very fine roots throughout; few fine roots throughout
    1A1—13 to 56 centimeters (5.1 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) exterior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; clay; strong very coarse prismatic structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; dry when described;. common very fine roots throughout
    1A2—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); 50 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) exterior and 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior and 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; clay; weak very coarse prismatic, and weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; dry when described;. common very fine roots throughout
    1ACk—86 to 117 centimeters (33.9 to 46.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior, 80 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, moist; clay; 11 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) medium distinct mottles; weak medium and coarse prismatic structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; dry when described;. few very fine roots throughout; common medium distinct 7.5YR54 mottles
    1Ctk—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); pale yellow (5Y 7/3) exterior, 80 percent 5Y 3/3 (5Y 3/3) interior, moist; silty clay; 11 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) medium distinct mottles; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common medium distinct 7.5YR54 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 219375; continuous - phpvsfiid 219375