IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shortyork
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979CA045117
  • User Pedon ID: 79CA045117
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0518
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48289
  • 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: 39.7672234
  • Std. Longitude: -123.0980530
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 150 feet south and 2,150 feet east of the northwest corner or
  • Location Description: 100 feet S of old road, 400 feet W, 50 feet S of SW corner of pond S of main residence on Capistran Ranch.
  • State: California
  • County: CA045—Mendocino
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SJB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Ultic Argixerolls
  • 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 #: 117
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shortyork
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shortyork
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed, thermic Ultic Argixeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1979
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    25

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    915

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    225

    116

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    15

    22

    8

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    1A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; gravelly loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P02924. 15 percent coarse frags 2-8 mm.; many very fine and fine roots
    1B21t—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; gravelly clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P02925. 30 percent coarse frags 2-25 mm.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; many clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; many very fine roots
    1B22t—38 to 69 centimeters (15.0 to 27.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; very gravelly clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 80P02926. 45 percent gravel. Variegated colos.; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; many clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine roots
    1R—69 to 74 centimeters (27.2 to 29.1 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. Fractured graywacke (1-3 apart).