IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): CHAIX
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958-CA-12-007x
  • User Pedon ID: 58-CA-12-007x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD5812007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41347
  • Print Date: 4/21/2026

    • 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: 40.7835312
  • Std. Longitude: -123.6696014
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: SE/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA023—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 5—Siskiyou-Trinity Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA605—Humboldt and Del Norte Area, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40123-G6—Grouse Mountain, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: EBA, JAD
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Xerumbrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - CHAIX
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Xerumbrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 2/11/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: diorite
  • Geology: Grano-diorite formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/11/2009 (entry creation date)
  • 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
    • 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

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    1554

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    0

    2032

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    8.3

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    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD03392
    A11—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; gravelly fine sandy loam; strong fine granular structure; very friable; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # UCD03393
    A12—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; gravelly loam; moderate coarse granular structure; very friable; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03394
    B2—46 to 84 centimeters (18.1 to 33.1 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), dry; very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # UCD03395
    C—84 to 97 centimeters (33.1 to 38.2 inches);, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; gravelly fine sandy loam; single grain; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # UCD03396
    Cr—97 to 97 centimeters (38.2 to 38.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD03397