IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Redding
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03CA632010
  • User Pedon ID: S04CA099-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0393
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17670
  • Print Date: 5/17/2024

    • 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: 37.9450833
  • Std. Longitude: -120.9016111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1 north
  • Range: 10 east
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: About 560 meters (1,840 feet) east and 10 meters (30 feet) north of the southwest corner of
  • Location Description: he site is about 400 meters (1,320 feet) south of a set of commercial turkey barns, just inside the Hwy. 4 right-of-way fence and 10 kilometers (6 miles) east of Farmington, CA.
  • Map Unit: 220—Redding gravelly loam, 0 to 8 percent slopes, dry
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: California
  • County: CA099—Stanislaus
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA632—Stanislaus County, California, Northern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37120-H8—Farmington, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JCR, TAC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Abruptic Durixeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Redding
  • PSC - 43 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Redding
  • Classificaton Date - 6/17/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from granite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: rare ponding
  • Geology: North Merced Gravels formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 20.00 percent subrounded indurated 2- to 76-millimeter metamorphic, unspecified, 1.00 percent rounded indurated 76- to 250-millimeter metamorphic, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/17/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 0218
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 33
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    abrupt textural change

    duripan

    very strongly coherent

    moderately coherent

    43 - 64

    64 - 152

    8 - 21 - 57

    80 - 88 - 120
    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    abrupt textural change

    duripan

    0—13

    43—64

    43—43

    64—152

    10—13—16

    6—21—25

    —-

    80—88—120
    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

    2

    —

    —

    66

    —

    180

    406

    —

    275

    17

    23

    10

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    CA5738

    Modesto

    TAPS
    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loam; 45 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 18 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 2.0 medium tubular pores; 20 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-50-76 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; gradual smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    AB—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly loam; 45 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 2.0 medium tubular pores; 25 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-50-76 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly loam; 45 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 2.0 medium tubular pores; 30 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-50-76 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; clay; 30 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 45 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; very high excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots between peds and 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 70 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-20-76 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt smooth boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 271586; continuous - phpvsfiid 271586
    3Btqm—64 to 152 centimeters (25.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face, dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face, moist; indurated; very hard, moderately coherent by silica; impermeable permeability; extremely high excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots top of horizon; 5 percent distinct clay films on bottom of rock fragments and 20 percent distinct silica coats on rock fragments; 2 percent fine prominent irregular moderately coherent cemented black (5YR 2/1), dry, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix and 20 percent fine prominent platy moderately coherent cemented black (5YR 2/1), dry, manganese coatings with sharp boundaries at top of horizon; 5 percent fine prominent dendritic moderately coherent cemented silica concretions with sharp boundaries in matrix; 30 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-50-76 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments.; dry when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 273746; patchy - phpvsfiid 273745; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 273746; patchy - phpvsfiid 273745