IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mugatu
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986CA019040
  • User Pedon ID: 86CA019040
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0235
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59531
  • 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: 36.6469460
  • Std. Longitude: -120.6819458
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15S
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4 NW 1/4 NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Chounet Ranch Quad. Photo 279-40.
  • State: California
  • County: CA019—Fresno
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K. Arrouse
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Xeric Argigypsids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 40
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mugatu
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Snd
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1986 (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

    40

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    265

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    90

    20

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    17

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    20

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    1A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); loam; fragments.
    1A2—13 to 60 centimeters (5.1 to 23.6 inches); loam; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.
    1Bk1—60 to 100 centimeters (23.6 to 39.4 inches); silt loam; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.
    1Bk2—100 to 126 centimeters (39.4 to 49.6 inches); silt loam; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.
    1Bky—126 to 152 centimeters (49.6 to 59.8 inches); undecomposed organic matter; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 87P01205. Sampled for selenium, CaCO3, pH, and Gypsum.