IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Padres
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984CA079034
  • User Pedon ID: 84CA079034
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0929
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55717
  • 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: 35.2477760
  • Std. Longitude: -119.7708359
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31S
  • Range: 21E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 105 meters E and 33 meters S of the NW corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA079—San Luis Obispo
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Eric Vinson and Karen Wiley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, thermic Xeric Torriorthents
  • 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 #: 34
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Padres
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Padres
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed (calcareous), thermic Typic Xe
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: bolson
  • Landform: terrace—outwash or marine
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • 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 - 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

    0—42

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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

    2

    —

    —

    636

    —

    225

    20

    —

    —

    15

    25

    8

    18

    25

    11

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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, dry; sandy loam; weak coarse platy structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P05266; dry when described;. few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1A2—8 to 42 centimeters (3.1 to 16.5 inches); 50 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior and 50 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) exterior, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) exterior, dry; sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P05267; dry when described;. common very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    2C—42 to 76 centimeters (16.5 to 29.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) exterior, dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P05268; moist when described;. This horizon has pockets of common, fine segregated filaments of carbonates. At 22 to 23 is a fsl lens through the horizon. The bottom 4 has more gravel. ; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    3Ck1—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) exterior, dry; loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 11 percent fine irregular lime masses; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P05269; dry when described;. common fine soft masses of lime concentrations; effervescence is continuous
    3Ck2—97 to 117 centimeters (38.2 to 46.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) exterior, dry; sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 11 percent fine irregular lime masses; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P05270; dry when described;. common fine soft masses of lime concentrations; effervescence is continuous
    4C—117 to 158 centimeters (46.1 to 62.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) exterior, dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 2.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular lime masses; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 84P05271; dry when described;. At 57 to 62 there is 5 to 10% less gravel than in the rest of the ho rizon. The 35% gravel figure is an average of the whole horizon.; few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; effervescence is continuous