IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SHASTA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975-CA-47-119x
  • User Pedon ID: S75-CA-47-119x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7547119
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43084
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 41.2786484
  • Std. Longitude: -122.1227112
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, SE/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA093—Siskiyou
  • MLRA: 22B—Southern Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA604—Intermountain Area, Parts of Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, and Siskiyou Counties, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41122-C1—Elk Spring, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JIM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, mesic Umbric Vitrandepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SHASTA
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal, mesic Umbric Vitrandepts
  • Classificaton Date - 3/2/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: ALL
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Geology: Volcanic Alluvium. Geologic F formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/2/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • 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

    5

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    1076

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    180

    1270

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    A11—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; coarse sandy loam; strong very fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD00190
    A12—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; coarse sandy loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD00191
    IIC1—61 to 107 centimeters (24.0 to 42.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; very cobbly coarse sandy loam; massive; friable; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD00192
    IIIC2—107 to 107 centimeters (42.1 to 42.1 inches); extremely cobbly loam; massive; 60 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # UCD00193