IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Colusa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989CA011001
  • User Pedon ID: 89CA011001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0062
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61167
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 39.1930542
  • Std. Longitude: -121.9944458
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet N and 3100 feet W of SW corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA011—Colusa
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Mays, C. Jett, and W. Reed.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Natrixeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Colusa
  • PSC - 5 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colusa
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Typic Natrixeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    natric horizon

    5—48

    5—201

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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

    1

    —

    —

    15

    —

    180

    38

    —

    —

    16

    25

    7

    18

    27

    11

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    1948

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; loam; strong medium platy structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00609; dry when described;. common coarse roots
    Btn1—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; loam; strong fine prismatic, and strong fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00610. common coarse roots
    Btn2—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and weak medium prismatic structure; loose, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 2.5 medium and coarse tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00611. common coarse roots
    Bn1—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00612. few coarse roots
    Bn2—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine tubular and 2.5 coarse tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00613
    Bn3—89 to 132 centimeters (35.0 to 52.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; sandy loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00614
    Bn4—132 to 163 centimeters (52.0 to 64.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; sandy loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00615
    Bn5—163 to 201 centimeters (64.2 to 79.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) interior, moist; sandy loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 89P00616