IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lilten
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984CA019014
  • User Pedon ID: 84CA019014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0315
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58120
  • 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: 36.3818893
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5173721
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18S
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 4420 feet NNW of Salt Creek. 1100 feet S and 300 feet E of the NW corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA019—Fresno
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, calcareous, thermic Typic 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 #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lilten
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lilten
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed (calcareous), thermic Typic Xerorthent
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1984 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    20—46

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    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

    52

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    561

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    0

    30

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    1A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay; 42 percent clay; strong very coarse platy structure; extremely hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P01858. Cracks 6 mm wide.; many very fine and fine roots
    1A2—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; clay; 46 percent clay; strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 1.0 very fine and fine tubular and 2.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 37 percent distinct pressure faces; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P01859. Cracks 6 mm wide.; common pressure faces surface features; common very fine roots; few fine roots
    1A3—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; clay; 48 percent clay; strong fine and medium prismatic structure; very hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 5.5 fine interstitial pores; 37 percent distinct clay films; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P01860. Cracks 3 mm wide.; common clay films surface features; common fine roots; few medium roots
    1C1—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; clay; 47 percent clay; strong medium and coarse prismatic structure; very hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 55 percent distinct pressure faces; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01861. Cracks 3 mm wide to 58 cm.; many pressure faces surface features; few fine and medium roots; few coarse roots
    1C2—71 to 104 centimeters (28.0 to 40.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; silty clay; 47 percent clay; strong fine and medium prismatic structure; very hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 medium and coarse roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 55 percent distinct pressure faces; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01862. many pressure faces surface features; few fine roots; common medium and coarse roots
    1Cr—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Soft calcareous shale.