IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nacimiento
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985CA103005
  • User Pedon ID: 85CA103005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0856
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57122
  • 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: 39.9194450
  • Std. Longitude: -122.3475037
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1,000 feet S and 1,000 feet E of intersection of Corning and Butte Mtn. Rds.
  • State: California
  • County: CA103—Tehama
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. C. Lindsey and L. A. Hokholt
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nacimiento
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Typic Haploxeralfs
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1985 (actual site observation 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—30

    30—155

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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

    21

    —

    —

    152

    —

    0

    56

    —

    —

    16

    27

    8

    16

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    —

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    4-2072

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    1Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04616; dry when described;. few very fine roots throughout
    1A—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04617; dry when described;. Structure breaks to strong medium subangular blocky.; few very fine roots throughout
    1Bt1—60 to 64 centimeters (23.6 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04618; dry when described;. Structure breaks to strong medium subangular blocky.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231074; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231074
    1Bt2—64 to 92 centimeters (25.2 to 36.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 55 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04619; dry when described;. Structure breaks to strong medium subangular blocky.; many clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231075; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231075
    1Btk—92 to 117 centimeters (36.2 to 46.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P04620; dry when described;. effervescence is continuous
    1BCtk—117 to 155 centimeters (46.1 to 61.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P04621; dry when described;. effervescence is continuous
    1C—155 to 166 centimeters (61.0 to 65.4 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P04622; dry when described;