IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pardaloe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979CA045002
  • User Pedon ID: 79CA045002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0278
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47011
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 39.0120926
  • Std. Longitude: -123.4247055
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 14W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet W and 1800 feet S of NE corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA045—Mendocino

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pardaloe
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pardaloe
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    72

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    317

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    270

    127

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    13

    18

    8

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    1A1—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, pink (7.5YR 7/4) interior, dry; very gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and strong fine granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01477. 16% c estimated by hand textureing, sample high in coarse sand.; few very fine roots; few coarse roots
    1B1—28 to 66 centimeters (11.0 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular and 2.5 medium and coarse interstitial pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01478. 19% c estimated by hand texturing, increase in coarse sands.; few very fine roots; few coarse roots
    1B2t—66 to 99 centimeters (26.0 to 39.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior, reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak very fine and fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01479. 22% c estimated by hand texturing, high coarse sands. (7.5YR 5/4) color of clay films moist and (7.5YR 6/4) dry.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    1B3t—99 to 137 centimeters (39.0 to 53.9 inches); 10YR 5/ (10YR 5/), interior, brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 5.5 medium interstitial pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01480. 20% c estimated by hand texturing. (7.5YR 5/4) color of clay film moist and (7.5YR 6/4) dry.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine roots; few coarse roots
    1R—137 to 175 centimeters (53.9 to 68.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Hard fractured sandstone with few very fine, fine and coarse roots along fracture faces and common distinct clay films on faces of rocks. Fractures are less than 1 mm wide and 1 cm to 18 cm in length.