IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Badland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986CA019045
  • User Pedon ID: 86CA019045
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0240
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59536
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 36.5966682
  • Std. Longitude: -120.6758347
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15S
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4, SE 1/4, NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Tumey Hills Quad.
  • State: California
  • County: CA019—Fresno
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K. Arroues
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, thermic Xerertic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: miscellaneous area
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 45
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Badland
  • PSC - 0 to 25 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Badland
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: high
  • 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

    0—25

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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

    75

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    —

    280

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    180

    20

    —

    —

    17

    —

    —

    20

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    —

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    1C—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, moist; silty clay loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 87P01214; dry when described;
    1Cr—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) interior weathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 87P01215. Fine grained sandstone and shale.