IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): El Solyo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991CA099010
  • User Pedon ID: 91CA099010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0351
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63398
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 37.6336098
  • Std. Longitude: -121.2686081
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 35
  • Location Description: McCracken Rd.
  • State: California
  • County: CA099—Stanislaus

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Calcixerollic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - El Solyo
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - El Solyo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, thermic Calcixerollic Xerochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1991
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • 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: 10/1/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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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    23

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; massive, and weak medium granular; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. few very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    AB—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate very fine granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. few very fine and fine roots; few medium and coarse roots
    Bt—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02036. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; few medium and coarse roots
    Btk1—43 to 97 centimeters (16.9 to 38.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02037. few very fine and fine roots
    Btk2—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots