IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moonbend
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989CA011002
  • User Pedon ID: 89CA011002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0063
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61168
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 39.1875000
  • Std. Longitude: -121.9791641
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1900 feet E and 450 feet S of the SW corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA011—Colusa
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Mays, C. Jett, and W. Reed.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic Pachic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Moonbend
  • PSC - 25 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Horst
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Pachic Haploxeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—130

    20—130

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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

    —

    —

    15

    —

    180

    38

    —

    —

    16

    25

    7

    18

    27

    11

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    1948

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00617; moist when described;
    Bw1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 medium and coarse tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00618; moist when described;. few, thin clay films lining pores
    Bw2—46 to 84 centimeters (18.1 to 33.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silt loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00619; moist when described;. common, thin clay films lining pores
    Bw3—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silt loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00620; moist when described;. many moderately thick clay films lining pores
    Bw4—104 to 130 centimeters (40.9 to 51.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00621; moist when described;
    Bk—130 to 160 centimeters (51.2 to 63.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior, moist; silt loam; massive; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00622; moist when described;
    Ab—160 to 191 centimeters (63.0 to 75.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00623; moist when described;
    C—191 to 216 centimeters (75.2 to 85.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; loam; massive; very hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00624; moist when described;