IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Klipstein
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990CA029015
  • User Pedon ID: 90CA029015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0584
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62517
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 35.0466652
  • Std. Longitude: -119.2825012
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: California
  • County: CA029—Kern
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Paul Benedict
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Fluventic Haplocambids
  • 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 #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Klipstein
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Norwalk
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, thermic Typic Camborthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1990 (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

    cambic horizon

    5—18

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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

    3

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    226

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    0

    20

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03407; dry when described;. common very fine roots; effervescence is discontinuous
    A2—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03408; dry when described;. few medium roots; few coarse roots; effervescence is continuous
    Bk1—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; extremely cobbly loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 medium interstitial pores; carbonate coats on rock fragments; 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03409; dry when described;. few fine roots; few medium roots; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 225222; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 225222
    Bk2—43 to 74 centimeters (16.9 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 medium interstitial and 2.5 fine interstitial pores; carbonate coats on rock fragments; 35 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03410; dry when described;. few very fine roots; effervescence is continuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 225223; patchy - phpvsfiid 225223
    Bk3—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 medium interstitial and 2.5 fine interstitial pores; carbonate coats on rock fragments; 75 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03411; dry when described;. few very fine roots; effervescence is continuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 225224; patchy - phpvsfiid 225224
    Bk4—91 to 112 centimeters (35.8 to 44.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 medium interstitial and 0.5 coarse interstitial pores; carbonate coats on rock fragments; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 80 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03412; dry when described;. few very fine roots; effervescence is continuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 225225; patchy - phpvsfiid 225225
    Bk5—112 to 165 centimeters (44.1 to 65.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; extremely gravelly loamy sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; carbonate coats on rock fragments; 35 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 90P03413; dry when described;. few very fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 225226; patchy - phpvsfiid 225226