IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Manzanar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986CA027004
  • User Pedon ID: 86CA027004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0811
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59105
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 36.7930565
  • Std. Longitude: -118.1474991
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 35E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 NW 1/4
  • Location Description: 3 mi ESE of Independence.
  • State: California
  • County: CA027—Inyo
  • MLRA: 29—Southern Nevada Basin and Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Fred Fischer
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Manzanar
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, carbonatic Aquic Palexeralfs
  • PSC - 14 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1986 (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—40

    14—152

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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

    1

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    1153

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    16

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    1An—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, moist; loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P04885; moist when described;. many very fine roots; common fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    1BAtn—14 to 40 centimeters (5.5 to 15.7 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent , moist, clay films between sand grains and 37 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P04886; moist when described;. common clay films surface features between sand grains; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; many very fine roots; common fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    1Btn1—40 to 60 centimeters (15.7 to 23.6 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P04887; moist when described;. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    1Btn2—60 to 81 centimeters (23.6 to 31.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 86P04888; moist when described;. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots; few medium roots; effervescence is continuous
    1Bt—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, moist; clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P04889; moist when described;. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots; few fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    1Btg1—107 to 132 centimeters (42.1 to 52.0 inches); light gray (5Y 7/1) interior, dark gray (5Y 4/1) interior, moist; clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P04890; moist when described;. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots; few fine roots
    1Btg2—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); light greenish gray (5GY 7/1) interior and pale yellow (5Y 7/3) interior, greenish gray (5GY 5/1) interior and olive (5Y 5/3) interior, moist; clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P04891; moist when described;. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots; few fine roots