IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clear Lake
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979CA095000
  • User Pedon ID: 79CA095000
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0090
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46274
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.3485069
  • Std. Longitude: -121.6993713
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 110 meters S and 110 meters E of NW corner
  • Location Description: Solano County, CA
  • Map Unit: CeA—Clear Lake clay, 0 to 2 percent slopes, MLRA 17
  • State: California
  • County: CA095—Solano
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38121-C6—Liberty Island, California

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Xeric Endoaquerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clear Lake
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/25/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clear Lake
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: basin floor
  • Runoff: very low
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1979 (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
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    Ag—0 to 40 centimeters (0.0 to 15.7 inches); very dark gray (N 3/0) interior, dark gray (N 4/0) interior, dry; clay; 1 percent fine faint mottles; strong medium granular, and strong very coarse prismatic, and structureless massive; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00467. Grass seeds grass and burned plant remains in cracks and slong cleavage planes.; many fine roots; few fine faint mottles
    Bssg1—40 to 58 centimeters (15.7 to 22.8 inches); very dark gray (N 3/0) interior, dark gray (N 4/0) interior, dry; clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and structureless massive; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 55 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00468. Graas remains in cracks and along cleavage planes.; many intersecting slickensides surface features; many fine roots
    Bssg2—58 to 98 centimeters (22.8 to 38.6 inches); very dark gray (N 3/0) interior, dark gray (N 4/0) interior, dry; clay; strong coarse prismatic, and structureless massive; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; 0.5 tubular pores; pressure faces on faces of peds and 55 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # 79P00469. Few fine concretions.; few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; many intersecting slickensides surface features; few roots
    Bkssg—98 to 152 centimeters (38.6 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; clay loam; 1 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) mottles; massive; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 79P00470. Few fine concretions. Water table at 48 inches. Tongues of very dark grayish brown 2.5Y 3/2 moist in upper part.; few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few intersecting slickensides surface features; few fine roots; very few to few 10YR64 mottles