IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Plaskett
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1972CA053019
  • User Pedon ID: 1972CA053006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 35.9111400
  • Std. Longitude: -121.3475200
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23S
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 1/4 mile east and 100 ft north of SW corner
  • Location Description: Representative profile of Plaskett gravelly loam, in an area of McMullin-Plaskett complex, just about 100 ft north of Burma Road opposite of the junction with the jeep trail to Los Burros Creek (Hunter Liggett Military Reservation); about 1/4 mile east and 100 ft north of SW corner of sec. 20, T. 23S., R, 6E.
  • State: California
  • County: CA053—Monterey
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Cathelyn Wang
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Plaskett
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2021
  • Classifier - Cathelyn Wang
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landform: mountain slope, hillslope
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/23/2021 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Cathelyn Wang
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    25 -

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

    lithic contact

    25—25

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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

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; channery loam; 43 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots between peds; many very fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 30 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-80-150 millimeter shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear wavy boundary.
    A2—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very channery loam; 47 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots between peds and many fine roots between peds; many very fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 75 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-80-150 millimeter shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear wavy boundary.
    R—25 to 61 centimeters (9.8 to 24.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.