IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): HECKER
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976-CA-06-013x
  • User Pedon ID: 76-CA-06-013x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7606013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42328
  • Print Date: 4/22/2026

    • 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: 39.4227028
  • Std. Longitude: -122.7235870
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 8N
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: SE/4, SE/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA021—Glenn
  • MLRA: 5—Siskiyou-Trinity Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA021—Glenn County, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39122-D6—Saint John Mountain, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JIM, RGD, WLC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - HECKER
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 3/2/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: greenstone
  • Geology: Greenstone 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • 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

    46

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    1631

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    135

    1143

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    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01057
    A11—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01058
    A12—8 to 31 centimeters (3.1 to 12.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; extremely gravelly loam; moderate medium granular parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 very fine irregular pores; 60 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01059
    B21—31 to 54 centimeters (12.2 to 21.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; extremely gravelly clay loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular pores; 60 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01060
    B22t—54 to 69 centimeters (21.3 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; extremely gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 60 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01061
    R—69 to 69 centimeters (27.2 to 27.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01062