IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ranchoseco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982CA067005
  • User Pedon ID: 82CA067005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0295
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52537
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 38.3105545
  • Std. Longitude: -121.0563889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 6.6 mi SE of town of Clay, 800 feet N and 810 feet E of gate on Dry Creek Ranch Rd which is 2600 feet N of Headquarters.
  • State: California
  • County: CA067—Sacramento
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Beutler, W. Reed, A. Tugel, J. Wright
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, thermic Lithic Xerorthents
  • 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 #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ranchoseco
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Reliz V
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    3

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    51

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    225

    43

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    16

    25

    7

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior, dry; gravelly loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 83P01334. common very fine roots
    1BA—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior, dry; very gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P01335. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; many very fine roots
    2Bt—15 to 18 centimeters (5.9 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; very gravelly clay; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 55 percent clay films; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P01336. many clay films surface features; common very fine roots
    2R—18 to 31 centimeters (7.1 to 12.2 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Lab sample # 83P01337. Andesitic sandstone conglomerate with silica coatings on underside of coarse fragments.