IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hillgate
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989CA103005
  • User Pedon ID: 89CA103005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0223
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62156
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • 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: 40.1041679
  • Std. Longitude: -122.5749969
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 160 feet E and 80 feet S of NW corner
  • Location Description: Big Bluff Ranch - Tehama County, California.
  • State: California
  • County: CA103—Tehama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Palexeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hillgate
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hillgate
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Typic Palexeralf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1989 (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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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; loam; strong very coarse angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01444. many very fine roots
    A2—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01445. common very fine roots
    Bt1—36 to 79 centimeters (14.2 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01446. few very fine roots
    Bt2—79 to 112 centimeters (31.1 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01447. few very fine roots
    BCt—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; clay; firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 90P01448