IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mugatu
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986CA019044
  • User Pedon ID: 86CA019044
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0239
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59535
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 36.5883331
  • Std. Longitude: -120.6605530
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15S
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4, NE 1/4, NE 1/4
  • Location Description: North of Road, Tumey Hills Quad.
  • State: California
  • County: CA019—Fresno
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K. Arroues
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Xeric Argigypsids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 44
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mugatu
  • PSC - 43 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Milham V
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—43

    43—84

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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

    8

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    369

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    45

    20

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    1A—0 to 43 centimeters (0.0 to 16.9 inches); loam; fragments.
    1Btky—43 to 84 centimeters (16.9 to 33.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, moist; clay loam; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 87P01213. Sampled for selenium, lime and gypsum.
    1Bky1—84 to 127 centimeters (33.1 to 50.0 inches); clay loam; fragments.
    1Bky2—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); clay loam; fragments.