IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lethent
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1987CA019001
  • User Pedon ID: 1987CA019001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0760
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60055
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 36.3002303
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9718004
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19 south
  • Range: 18 east
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 75 feet north and 1584 feet east of the SW corner
  • Location Description: About 75 feet north of Chandler Avenue and .3 of a mile east of Dickenson Avenue. This site is ripped in most years.
  • State: California
  • County: CA019—Fresno
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA653—Fresno County, California, Western Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36119-C8—Vanguard, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K. Arroues and P. Benedict
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Natrargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lethent
  • PSC - 30 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/26/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lethent
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1987
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: barrier flat
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    natric horizon

    0—30

    30—53

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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

    0

    —

    —

    76

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    190

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    18

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    19

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    Ap1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P4099; dry when described;
    Ap2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; strong very coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P4100; dry when described;
    Bt—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P4101; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 107516; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 107516
    Btk—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P4102; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 107517; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 107517
    Bk1—53 to 99 centimeters (20.9 to 39.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 3 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P4103; moist when described;. carbonate also occurs as filaments.
    Bk2—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 3 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 87P4104; wet when described;. segregated carbonate is strongly effervescent and also occurs as filaments.