IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): CAJON
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997CA071005
  • User Pedon ID: 97CA071005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0419
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10102
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 34.2883339
  • Std. Longitude: -116.2324982
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: about 1250 feet west and 2200 feet south of the northeast corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA071—San Bernardino
  • MLRA: 30—Mojave Basin and Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA699—Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 34116-C2—Deadman Lake SW, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SES, AAR
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, thermic Typic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - CAJON
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kajoe
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, thermic Typic Torripsamment
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/1994
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: fan piedmont
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38
  • Plant Association Name: RANGE SITE NO.: 030XB058NV
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind and water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—18

    —-
    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

    4

    —

    —

    712

    —

    38

    102

    —

    —

    19.4

    28.9

    11.1

    20.6

    30

    12.2

    —

    —

    CA 9099

    TWENTYNINE PALMS

    TAPS, FROST AND
    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; coarse sand; strong thick platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.0 fine and medium vesicular pores; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P02519
    A2—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; coarse sand; strong thick platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 8.9, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02520
    C1—18 to 69 centimeters (7.1 to 27.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; loamy coarse sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 fine and medium roots; 1 percent medium and coarse spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) insect casts throughout; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02521
    C2—69 to 102 centimeters (27.2 to 40.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loamy coarse sand; massive; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; slight effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02522
    C3—102 to 160 centimeters (40.2 to 63.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loamy coarse sand; massive; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; slight effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02523
    C4—160 to 203 centimeters (63.0 to 79.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loamy coarse sand; massive; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; slight effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 97P02524