IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sorrento
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984CA079030
  • User Pedon ID: 84CA079030
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0925
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55713
  • 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: 35.6083336
  • Std. Longitude: -120.1602783
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27S
  • Range: 17E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 450 meters W and 660 meters S of the NE corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA079—San Luis Obispo
  • MLRA: 14—Central California Coastal Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Karen Wiley and Eric Vinson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Calcic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 30
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sorrento
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sorrento
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Calcic Haploxeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    0—41

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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

    3

    —

    —

    578

    —

    225

    25

    —

    —

    15

    25

    8

    18

    27

    11

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    1Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; loam; moderate fine cloddy, and moderate medium cloddy, and moderate coarse cloddy structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P05239; dry when described;. few very fine roots throughout
    1A—10 to 41 centimeters (3.9 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, 75 percent very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) exterior, moist; loam; strong coarse prismatic structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P05240; dry when described;. few very fine roots throughout
    1C1—41 to 55 centimeters (16.1 to 21.7 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior, 75 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior and 25 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, moist; loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P05241; moist when described;. few very fine roots throughout
    1C2—55 to 83 centimeters (21.7 to 32.7 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior, 75 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior and 25 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior, moist; loam; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 37 percent faint , moist, pressure faces throughout; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P05242; moist when described;. common pressure faces surface features throughout; common very fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 217885; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 217885
    1Ck1—83 to 125 centimeters (32.7 to 49.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior, moist; loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 30 percent fine irregular lime masses and 1 percent fine irregular carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P05243; moist when described;. many fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine lime concretions concentrations; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Ck2—125 to 150 centimeters (49.2 to 59.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior, moist; loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 11 percent fine irregular lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P05244; moist when described;. common fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Ck3—150 to 183 centimeters (59.1 to 72.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) exterior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, moist; loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 84P05245; moist when described;. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous