IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Stine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93CA029006
  • User Pedon ID: 93CA029006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0477
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65820
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 35.6897222
  • Std. Longitude: -118.4041667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: California
  • MLRA: 29—Southern Nevada Basin and Range
  • 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
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Stine
  • PSC - 0 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/25/1993
  • 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: middle third
  • Runoff: high
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/25/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 148
  • Microrelief Elevation: 2
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    20—41

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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

    51

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    948

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    270

    229

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; 18 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 15.0 very fine roots; 5.0 very fine tubular and 15.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 24 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified. Lab sample # 93P3568; moist when described;
    Bt1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 15.0 very fine roots and 5.0 fine roots; 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; 12 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 19 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified. Lab sample # 93P3569; moist when described;
    Bt2—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 12.0 very fine roots; 18.0 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 23 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified. Lab sample # 93P3570; moist when described;
    R—41 to 50 centimeters (16.1 to 19.7 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 93P3571