IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): CASUSE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972CA049020
  • User Pedon ID: S1972CA049020
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1972CA049020
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 72C0109
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44043
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 41.3972206
  • Std. Longitude: -120.6030579
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 41N
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 17
  • Location Description: Modoc County, California. The following profile is located 100 feet south of road, .35 miles west of reservoir, and 2.3 miles west of West Side Road.
  • State: California
  • County: CA049—Modoc
  • MLRA: 21—Klamath and Shasta Valleys and Basins
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA603—Modoc County, California, Alturas Area
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41120-D5—Alturas, California

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, shallow Xeralfic Haplargids
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 20
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - CASUSE
  • PSC - 20 to 31 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/12/2002
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Casuse
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1972 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 5DD-183
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    2GA

    ARTR2

    ELMU3

    JUNIP

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    Artemisia tridentata

    Elymus multisetus

    Juniperus

    Grass, annual

    big sagebrush

    big squirreltail

    juniper

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    mollic epipedon

    paralithic contact

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    30—

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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

    6

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    1434.1

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    45

    305

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    9

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; loam; moderate medium platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine vesicular and 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00641
    B1—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; massive; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00642
    B2T—20 to 31 centimeters (7.9 to 12.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.1 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00643
    C1—31 to 47 centimeters (12.2 to 18.5 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) bedrock; 75 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fine irregular carbonate masses on vertical faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00644
    C2—47 to 66 centimeters (18.5 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 72C00645