IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Epot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986CA035004
  • User Pedon ID: 86CA035004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0487
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58292
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 40.1940498
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0196304
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 17E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 3.1 W of E; 1.4 N of S photo; 1700 feet W and 2500 feet S of apparent NE corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA035—Lassen

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SES
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Natrargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Epot
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chuckles
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Natrargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1986
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1986 (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
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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; loam; 10 percent sand; moderate fine and medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P02904. Loam to sandy loam with many or common 1/2 mm ostracod shells.; common very fine roots
    1A2—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) interior, pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) interior, dry; loam; 11 percent sand; weak medium platy structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine vesicular and 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P02905. common very fine roots; few fine roots
    1Btn—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior, dry; loam, silt loam; moderate fine and medium prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P02906. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; common very fine roots
    1Btnk—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior, dry; clay loam, silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P02907. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; common very fine roots
    1C1—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior, dry; loam; 19 percent sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P02908. few very fine and fine roots
    1C2—69 to 124 centimeters (27.2 to 48.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) interior, light gray (5Y 7/2) interior, dry; loam; 16 percent sand; weak medium and coarse platy structure; very hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P02909. Many 1/2 mm ostracod shells.; few very fine roots
    1C3—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior, pale yellow (5Y 8/2) interior, dry; loam; 15 percent sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P02910. few very fine roots