IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Diablo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93CA079002A
  • User Pedon ID: 93CA079002A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0667
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66010
  • 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: 35.3295556
  • Std. Longitude: -120.6970000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: On camp San Luis National Guard; about 1000 ft. N-NW of NW corner of California mens colony main compound; about 250 ft. NW of Chorro Creek Crossing.
  • State: California
  • County: CA079—San Luis Obispo
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Whited, Southard, and Oster
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Diablo
  • PSC - 25 to 115 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/1993
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: with <10
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    0—84

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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

    10

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    150

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    A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1); moderate medium and coarse prismatic structure; very hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 10.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 0.5 fine pores; 15 percent faint pressure faces; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P4648. structure at 0-1 cm is moderate fine and medium granular.
    Bw—4 to 34 centimeters (1.6 to 13.4 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1); moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine pores; 37 percent faint pressure faces; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P4649
    Bss—34 to 85 centimeters (13.4 to 33.5 inches); 5 percent very dark gray (5YR 3/1) and 95 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2); weak medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine high-continuity tubular pores; 15 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) and 37 percent faint pressure faces; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P4650
    Bkss—85 to 115 centimeters (33.5 to 45.3 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and 90 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) and 10 percent very dark gray (5Y 3/1); moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine high-continuity tubular pores; 15 percent faint pressure faces and 37 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent spherical masses of dark accumulation; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P4651