IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nacimiento
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985CA103007
  • User Pedon ID: 85CA103007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0858
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57124
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 1.5 mi S on Butte Mtn. Rd. from intersection with Glenn Rd.; East side of road.
  • State: California
  • County: CA103—Tehama
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. C. Lindsey and P. Bailey
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • 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: medium
  • 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—20

    20—71

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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

    8

    —

    —

    152

    —

    0

    56

    —

    —

    16

    27

    8

    16

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    4-2027

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    1Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04625; dry when described;. common very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1BAt—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04626; dry when described;. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231078; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231078
    1Btk1—41 to 71 centimeters (16.1 to 28.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) exterior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04627; dry when described;. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231079; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231079
    1Ck1—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) exterior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04628; dry when described;. few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    2Ck2—89 to 117 centimeters (35.0 to 46.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) exterior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior, moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04629; dry when described;. effervescence is continuous
    3Ck—117 to 140 centimeters (46.1 to 55.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) exterior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior, moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04630; dry when described;. effervescence is continuous
    4C—140 to 168 centimeters (55.1 to 66.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) exterior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior, moist; sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P04631; dry when described;. effervescence is discontinuous