IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Montague
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966CA093007
  • User Pedon ID: S1966CA093007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3081
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38210
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 41.8025017
  • Std. Longitude: -122.4463882
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 46N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: A pit located just north of where the Montague ditch crosses the County Airport Road on the Lipert Ranch. Pit site located between power poles #30 and 7/25, 47 paces north and 48 paces west from pole #30
  • State: California
  • County: CA093—Siskiyou
  • MLRA: 21—Klamath and Shasta Valleys and Basins
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA602—Siskiyou County, California, Central Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. B. Johnson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Chromic Durixererts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Montague
  • PSC - 25 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Montague
  • Classificaton Date - 5/26/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: valley
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/26/1966 (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
    • 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

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    817

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    330

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    11.1

    22.8

    1.1

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    AP—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; clay; strong coarse angular blocky parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24106
    A12—10 to 41 centimeters (3.9 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay; strong medium prismatic structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24107
    A13—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and dark brown (10YR 3/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay; strong medium prismatic structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24108
    C1CAM—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24109. strongly lime cemented petrocalcic horizon, violent effervescence with dilute acid. Silica occurs in thin discontinuous seams.
    C2CAM—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A24110. strongly lime cemented petrocalcic horizon.