IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Reefridge
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989CA031002
  • User Pedon ID: 89CA031002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989CA031002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0489
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61593
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 35.8677788
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0736084
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24S
  • Range: 17E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: About 201 meters NW of Hwy 41, about 213 meters W and 453 meters N of the SE corner
  • Location Description: Pyr
  • State: California
  • County: CA031—Kings
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carl H. Anderson, Dan Vaughan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Chromic Haplotorrerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Reefridge
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Reefridge
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Typic Torrert
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/1/1989 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AVENA

    BRRU2

    Avena

    Bromus rubens

    oat

    red brome

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—36

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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

    12

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    236

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    225

    18

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    8

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    8

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P02742; dry when described;. many very fine roots throughout
    A2—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, dry; clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P02743; dry when described;. Clods sampled; many very fine roots throughout
    A3—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, dry; clay; strong coarse prismatic structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots between peds; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P02744; dry when described;. Clods sampled; very few intersecting slickensides surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common very fine roots between peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224127; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224127
    C—36 to 41 centimeters (14.2 to 16.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, dry; clay; 1 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) fine prominent mottles; strong coarse prismatic structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots between peds; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P02745; dry when described;. common very fine roots between peds; few fine prominent 7.5YR66 mottles; effervescence is continuous
    Cky—41 to 122 centimeters (16.1 to 48.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, dry; clay; 11 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) medium distinct mottles; strong coarse prismatic structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses and 11 percent fine irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P02746; dry when described;. Clods sampled; common fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common fine gypsum crystals concentrations; very few intersecting slickensides surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; common medium distinct 10YR68 mottles; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224128; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224128
    Cr—122 centimeters (48.0 inches);, yellow (10YR 7/8) interior and olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) interior and light olive gray (5Y 6/2) interior, dry; fragments. Interbedded calcareous shale and sandstone. This horizon was not sampled