IDENTIFIERS
Current Taxon Name (Soil Name):
Altamont
OSD
Series Extent
User Site ID:
93CA011003
User Pedon ID:
93CA011003
Lab Information:
Certified Lab Pedon Description -
no
Lab Source ID -
NSSL
Lab Pedon # -
94P0051
Print Date:
11/13/2024
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:
39.3455556
Std. Longitude:
-122.3230556
Datum:
WGS84
Map Unit:
215—Altamont-Sehorn complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes
State:
California
County:
CA011—Colusa
MLRA:
15—Central California Coast Range
Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area:
CA011—Colusa County, California
7.5 Minute USGS Quad:
39122-C3—Sites, California
PEDON
Describers Name:
Susan Southard, Maxine Levin, and Gaylon Lane
Current Taxonomic Class:
Fine, smectitic, thermic Chromic Haploxererts
Current Taxon Kind:
series
Pedon Type:
classifies to current taxon name, full description
Pedon Purpose:
research site
Pedon Record Orgin:
Converted from PDP 3.x
Correlated Information:
Soil Name -
Altamont
PSC -
25 to 100 cm.
Classificaton Date -
3/16/2006
Soil Taxonomic Edition -
seventh edition
Moisture Class -
xeric
Moisture Subclass -
typic
Sampled As Information:
Soil Name -
Altamont Low
Classificaton Date -
9/21/1993
Dynamic Soil Properties:
Erosion Class -
3
Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator -
no
Hydric:
no
SITE
Landscape:
hills
Landform:
hillside
Anthropogenic Feature:
leveled land
Geomorphic Component Hills:
side slope
Hill Slope Profile:
backslope
Slope Position:
middle third
Slope Complexity:
simple
Slope Shape Across:
linear
Slope Shape Down:
linear
Runoff:
low
Drainage Class:
well
Flooding:
none flooding
Bedrock:
s moderate weathered mudstone with <10 and a strike of 190 degrees and a dip of 90 to 90 degrees
Surface Fragments:
0.00 percent
Benchmark Soil?:
no
VEGETATION
SITE OBSERVATION
Observation Date:
9/21/1993 (actual site observation date)
Microrelief Elevation:
0
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
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
35
278
163
450
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315
170
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Colusa SW
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A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) exterior, dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) exterior, moist; clay loam; 38 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; high toughness; 25.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P0436; observed in trench. Polygon #1D. This polygon is also on west face of transect. 2 cm maximum crack width.
Bw—10 to 34 centimeters (3.9 to 13.4 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) exterior, dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) exterior, moist; clay; 40 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; high toughness; 19.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine low-continuity continuous tubular pores; 20 percent prominent pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P0437; observed in trench. Polygon #17. 40 cm wide prism parting to moderate coarse angular blocky 10 cm wide, parting to 5 cm moderate coarse angular blocky.; patchy - phpvsfiid 207381; patchy - phpvsfiid 207381
Bss1—34 to 61 centimeters (13.4 to 24.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) exterior, moist; clay; 45 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; high toughness; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine low-continuity continuous tubular pores; 40 percent prominent pressure faces on faces of peds and 60 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P0438; observed in trench. Polygon #21. 48 cm wide prism parting to moderate coarse angular blocky and wedge-shaped peds. 3 cm crack width.; continuous - phpvsfiid 207382; patchy - phpvsfiid 207383; continuous - phpvsfiid 207382; patchy - phpvsfiid 207383
Bss2—61 to 100 centimeters (24.0 to 39.4 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) exterior, moist; clay; 45 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; high toughness; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine low-continuity continuous tubular pores; 40 percent prominent pressure faces on faces of peds and 60 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P0439; observed in trench. Polygon #22. 70 cm wide between cracks, prism parting to moderate coarse angular blocky and wedge-shaped peds. 4 cm crack width.; continuous - phpvsfiid 207384; patchy - phpvsfiid 207385; continuous - phpvsfiid 207384; patchy - phpvsfiid 207385
Bss3—100 to 120 centimeters (39.4 to 47.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) exterior, moist; clay; 45 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; high toughness; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine low-continuity continuous tubular pores; 40 percent prominent pressure faces on faces of peds and 60 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P0440; observed in trench. Polygon #24. Slickensides controlling the size of structure weak coarse angular blocky.; continuous - phpvsfiid 207386; patchy - phpvsfiid 207387; continuous - phpvsfiid 207386; patchy - phpvsfiid 207387
Bk—120 to 144 centimeters (47.2 to 56.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) exterior, moist; gravelly clay; 40 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; high toughness; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine low-continuity continuous tubular pores; 10 percent prominent pressure faces on faces of peds; 2 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented light gray (2.5Y 7/2) carbonate threads between peds and 2 percent fine spherical noncoherent cemented light gray (2.5Y 7/2) carbonate concretions between peds; 15 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P0441; observed in trench. Polygon #23. 2 cm cracks at top of horizon tapered to 2 mm thick crack into BC. Beds of calcareous material that have been dragged and mixed in this layer.; patchy - phpvsfiid 207388; patchy - phpvsfiid 207388
BC—144 to 200 centimeters (56.7 to 78.7 inches); 10 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) exterior and 5 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) exterior very gravelly clay; 40 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; high toughness; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine low-continuity continuous tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical noncoherent cemented light gray (2.5Y 7/2) carbonate concretions between peds; 40 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 94P0442; observed in trench. Polygon #27