IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): LOS GATOS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1954-CA-11-018
  • User Pedon ID: 54-CA-11-018
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1954-CA-11-018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD5411018
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41226
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.7162552
  • Std. Longitude: -122.6012192
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: SW/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA021—Glenn
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA021—Glenn County, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39122-F5—Chrome, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ELB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Haploxeralfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - LOS GATOS
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Haploxeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: schist, unspecified
  • Geology: Schistose Rock formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/25/2009 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CEIN3

    Ceanothus integerrimus

    deerbrush

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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

    32

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    689

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    0

    737

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    12.8

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 medium irregular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01758
    B1t—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly loam; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 21.0 medium irregular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01759
    B2t—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium irregular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01760
    R—56 to 56 centimeters (22.0 to 22.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01761