IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Backcanyon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93CA029004
  • User Pedon ID: 93CA029004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0475
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65818
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 35.3138889
  • Std. Longitude: -118.3252778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 300 ft. S, 400 ft. E of NW corner sec. 22, T.30S., R.34E.
  • State: California
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA668—Kern County, Northeastern Part, and Southeastern Part of Tulare County, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Regal and Maxine Levin
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Backcanyon
  • Classificaton Date - 3/24/1993
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/24/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 697
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    lithic contact

    cambic horizon

    0—58

    8—38

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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

    59

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    1171

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    270

    356

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    17

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    18

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; 16 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial and 5.0 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 14 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P3557; moist when described;
    Bw1—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; 17 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 5.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular and 10.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 11 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P3558; moist when described;
    Bw2—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; 17 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 5.0 very fine moderate-continuity and 10.0 very fine low-continuity pores; 6 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 14 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P3559; moist when described;
    Cr—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); 2.0 fine to coarse roots in cracks; fragments; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 93P3560. moderately weathered calcareous metamorphic rocks - discontinuous layer.
    R—58 to 75 centimeters (22.8 to 29.5 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 93P3561. slightly weathered metamorphic and granitic rocks.