IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Musserhill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985CA105005
  • User Pedon ID: 85CA105005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0260
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58065
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 40.7401237
  • Std. Longitude: -122.9130554
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Take HWY 3 N from Weaverville, turn right on Brown's Ranch Rd., take left, go 0.15 mi take right fork.
  • State: California
  • County: CA105—Trinity

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Musserhill
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vitzthum V
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1985
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    33

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    778

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    225

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    O—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); partially decomposed organic matter; fragments. Leaves, twigs and grass stems.
    A—1 to 14 centimeters (0.4 to 5.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, moist; gravelly clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01494. 20% rounded gravel.; few medium and coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bt1—14 to 29 centimeters (5.5 to 11.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, moist; very gravelly clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01495. 35% rounded gravel.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few medium and coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bt2—29 to 54 centimeters (11.4 to 21.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, moist; extremely gravelly clay loam; 39 percent clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01496. 45% rounded gravel.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common medium and coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bt3—54 to 82 centimeters (21.3 to 32.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, moist; extremely cobbly clay loam; 37 percent clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01497. 50% rounded gravel.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few medium and coarse roots; common very fine roots
    Crt—82 to 108 centimeters (32.3 to 42.5 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Weakly consolidated saprolyte conglomerate with tongues of 5YR clay and containg rounded gravel and cobbles and very few roots.