IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nacimiento
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985CA103006
  • User Pedon ID: 85CA103006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0857
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57123
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 39.8727760
  • Std. Longitude: -122.3625031
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1,000 feet S and 1,000 feet E of intersection of Corning and Butte Mtn. Rd.
  • State: California
  • County: CA103—Tehama
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. C. Lindsey and L. A. Hokholt
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nacimiento
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Calcixerollic Xerochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1985
  • 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: 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—18

    18—74

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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

    17

    —

    —

    152

    —

    0

    56

    —

    —

    16

    27

    8

    16

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    4-2027

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    1Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) exterior, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04623; dry when described;. Structure is almost massive.
    1Ap2—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) exterior, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04624; dry when described;
    1Btk1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior and 20 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 1 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) medium distinct mottles; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; dry when described;. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few medium distinct 10YR42 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231076; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231076
    1Btk2—38 to 74 centimeters (15.0 to 29.1 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) exterior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; dry when described;. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231077; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231077
    1C—74 to 152 centimeters (29.1 to 59.8 inches); 50 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) exterior and 50 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) exterior, 50 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) exterior and 50 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments.; dry when described;