IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nacimiento
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985CA103012
  • User Pedon ID: 85CA103012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0863
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57129
  • 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: 39.9025002
  • Std. Longitude: -122.3513870
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1600 feet S of intersection of Glenn and Butte Mt. roads, 300 feet E of road and 75 feet N of drainage.
  • 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: W. C. Lindsey
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nacimiento
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Typic Calcixerepts
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1985
  • 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: 3/1/1985 (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

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    28—102

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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

    10

    —

    —

    155

    —

    225

    56

    —

    —

    16

    27

    8

    16

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    4-2027

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    1Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) exterior, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04639; moist when described;. many very fine and fine roots throughout
    1Ap2—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) exterior, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04640; moist when described;. many very fine and fine roots throughout
    1Btk1—28 to 61 centimeters (11.0 to 24.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described;. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; effervescence is discontinuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219396; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219396
    1Btk2—61 to 102 centimeters (24.0 to 40.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described;. effervescence is discontinuous
    1C—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; massive; hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog.; moist when described;. effervescence is discontinuous