IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Milham
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986CA019051
  • User Pedon ID: 86CA019051
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0246
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59542
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 36.5719452
  • Std. Longitude: -120.6063919
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16S
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4, NE 1/4, NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Monocline Ridge 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 Typic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 51
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Milham
  • PSC - 15 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Polvadero
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Typic Natrargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1986
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • 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

    natric horizon

    0—15

    15—63

    38—63

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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

    15

    —

    —

    265

    —

    45

    20

    —

    —

    17

    —

    —

    20

    —

    —

    —

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    —

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    1A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) interior, dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01224. many very fine roots
    1Btk—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) interior, dry; sandy clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P01225. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine roots
    1Btkn—38 to 63 centimeters (15.0 to 24.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) interior, dry; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 2 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. very few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine roots
    1Bk—63 to 152 centimeters (24.8 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) interior, dry; sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.