IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nacimiento
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985CA103011
  • User Pedon ID: 85CA103011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0862
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57128
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.8902779
  • Std. Longitude: -122.3536148
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.1 mi S of Glenn Rd. on Butte Mtn. Rd., W side of road.
  • Map Unit: NcD2—Nacimiento-Altamont complex, 10 to 30 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: California
  • County: CA103—Tehama
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA645—Tehama County, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39122-H3—Henleyville, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. A. Hokholt
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nacimiento
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed Calcixerollic Xerochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • 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
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: UK-65-22
  • 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—38

    38—76

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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

    6

    —

    —

    152

    —

    56

    —

    —

    16

    27

    8

    16

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    4-6506

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    1Ap1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) exterior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; strong very coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04637; dry when described;. few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Ap2—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) exterior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04638; moist when described;. few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bwk—38 to 76 centimeters (15.0 to 29.9 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) exterior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;. effervescence is continuous
    1C—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) exterior, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog.; moist when described;