IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vernalis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978CA099000
  • User Pedon ID: 78CA099000
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0094
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46278
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 37.4349174
  • Std. Longitude: -121.1249008
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: About 3.2 km W of Davis Rd. and 95 meters S of Marshall Rd. NE corner NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Stanislaus County, CA.
  • State: California
  • County: CA099—Stanislaus
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JCM/GLH/LCL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Calcixerollic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vernalis
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vernalis
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Runoff: low
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    1Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 5.5 medium interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00493. many medium roots; many very fine roots
    1A12—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular and 5.5 medium interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00494. many very fine roots
    1B21—51 to 91 centimeters (20.1 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; loam, clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 medium tubular pores; 37 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00495. Lower part slightly calcareous with disseminated lime.; common clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; many very fine roots
    1B22—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 medium tubular pores; 37 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00496. Slighlty calcareous lime mainly disseminated occasional filaments.; common clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; common very fine roots
    1C—117 to 157 centimeters (46.1 to 61.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; clay loam, loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 79P00497. Strongly calcareous with disseminated lime.; few very fine roots