IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984CA079037
  • User Pedon ID: 84CA079037
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0932
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55720
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 35.2055550
  • Std. Longitude: -119.7147217
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31S
  • Range: 21E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 259 meters E and 1.5 meters S of the NW corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA079—San Luis Obispo
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Eric Vinson and Karen Wiley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, thermic, shallow 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 #: 37
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Beam
  • PSC - 25 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beam
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed (calcareous), thermic, shallow Typic
  • 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: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: high
  • 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—10

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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

    40

    —

    —

    774

    —

    90

    20

    —

    —

    15

    25

    8

    18

    27

    11

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    —

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    1A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) exterior, dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P05283; dry when described;. common very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1C—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) exterior, dry; fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P05284; dry when described;. common very fine roots throughout; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1CR—38 to 59 centimeters (15.0 to 23.2 inches); dark gray (N 4/0) exterior, 60 percent gray (N 6/0) exterior and 40 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, dry; unknown texture; strong fine angular blocky, and structureless medium angular blocky structure; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 84P05285; dry when described;. effervescence is discontinuous