IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weedpatch
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989CA029003
  • User Pedon ID: 89CA029003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0554
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61656
  • Print Date: 5/1/2025

    • 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: 35.2144432
  • Std. Longitude: -118.9802780
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31S
  • Range: 28E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 2185 feet N and 1240 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: SW Kern. 3 1/2 miles S and 2 1/4 miles E of Greenfield.
  • State: California
  • County: CA029—Kern
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Typic Haplocalcids
  • 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 #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Weedpatch
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Weedpatch
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Typic Calciorthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; clay loam, silty clay loam; very coarse cloddy structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. few very fine and fine roots; effervescence is discontinuous
    A2—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; clay loam, silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03078. many pressure faces that might also be indestinct clay films; also have some dark (O.M.) stains on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; effervescence is discontinuous
    2Bkn1—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; clay loam, silty clay loam; weak very fine prismatic, and strong fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03079. many pressure faces that might also be indestinct clay films; also have some dark (O.M.) stains on faces of peds; few very fine roots; effervescence is discontinuous
    2Bkn2—61 to 107 centimeters (24.0 to 42.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam, clay loam; weak very fine prismatic, and strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03080. many pressure faces that might also be indestinct clay films; also have some dark (O.M.) stains on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; effervescence is discontinuous
    2Bkn3—107 to 119 centimeters (42.1 to 46.9 inches); pale yellow (5Y 7/3), olive (5Y 4/3), moist; clay loam, clay loam; weak very fine prismatic, and strong very fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.9, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. many pressure faces that might also be indestinct clay films; also have some dark (O.M.) stains on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; effervescence is discontinuous
    2Bkn4—119 to 150 centimeters (46.9 to 59.1 inches); pale yellow (5Y 7/3), olive (5Y 5/3), moist; clay loam, clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. many pressure faces that might also be indestinct clay films; also have some dark (O.M.) stains on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; effervescence is discontinuous
    2C—150 to 163 centimeters (59.1 to 64.2 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) and brown (7.5YR 5/4), olive (5Y 4/3) and brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog.