IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Altamont
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985CA021003
  • User Pedon ID: 85CA021003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0851
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57117
  • 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: 39.5472221
  • Std. Longitude: -122.3513870
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.1 mi from intersection of Hwy 162 on Rd. 302; 100 feet E of Rd.
  • State: California
  • County: CA021—Glenn
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. C. Lindsey
  • 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 #: 3
  • 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 - 6/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1985 (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
    • 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

    20

    —

    —

    122

    —

    270

    56

    —

    —

    16

    36

    1

    16

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    4-9699

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    1Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; clay; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P04595; dry when described;
    1Ap2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; clay; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P04596; dry when described;
    1A1—20 to 53 centimeters (7.9 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; clay; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog.; dry when described;
    1A2—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; clay; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog.; dry when described;. effervescence is continuous
    1AC—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; clay; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog.; dry when described;. effervescence is continuous
    1Cr—89 to 102 centimeters (35.0 to 40.2 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Fine grained siltstone.