IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elsalado
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989CA099011
  • User Pedon ID: 89CA099011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0352
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63399
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 37.4944458
  • Std. Longitude: -121.1480560
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet N and 2350 feet W of SE corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA099—Stanislaus

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Fluventic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elsalado
  • Classificaton Date - 11/30/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Salado
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, thermic Fluventic Xerochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • 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
    • 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

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    34

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02038. common fine and medium roots; effervescence is discontinuous
    Bk1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 medium roots and 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. common fine roots; common medium roots
    Bk2—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots and 5.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02039. few fine and medium roots; many fine roots
    Bk3—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine to coarse roots and 2.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. few fine to coarse roots; common fine and medium roots
    Bk4—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. few very fine and fine roots; few medium and coarse roots; effervescence is discontinuous
    Bk5—104 to 122 centimeters (40.9 to 48.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. few very fine and fine roots; effervescence is discontinuous
    Bk6—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 very fine pores; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P02040. few very fine and fine roots