IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SHEETIRON
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974-CA-47-115x
  • User Pedon ID: 74-CA-47-115x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1974-CA-47-115x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7447115
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42308
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 41.2314529
  • Std. Longitude: -122.2048874
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 39N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: NE/4, NW/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA093—Siskiyou
  • MLRA: 5—Siskiyou-Trinity Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA604—Intermountain Area, Parts of Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, and Siskiyou Counties, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41122-B2—Girard Ridge, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JIM, WRA
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Dystric Xerochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SHEETIRON
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Dystric Xerochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: shale, unspecified
  • Geology: Shale. Geologic Formation: Ke formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/27/2009 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABCO

    Abies concolor

    white fir

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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

    32

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    1158

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    135

    1397

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    10

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    O1—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03896
    O2—1 to 3 centimeters (0.4 to 1.2 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03897
    A1—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; extremely stony coarse sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular pores; 60 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03898
    A3—8 to 39 centimeters (3.1 to 15.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9 wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03899
    B2—39 to 84 centimeters (15.4 to 33.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; very gravelly loam; massive; soft, friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD03900
    B3—84 to 110 centimeters (33.1 to 43.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), pink (7.5YR 7/4), dry; extremely gravelly loam; massive; soft, friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 60 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # UCD03901
    R—110 to 110 centimeters (43.3 to 43.3 inches); hard; fragments. Lab sample # UCD03902